Michigan has made real policy commitments to improving direct care worker wages over the past several years. That progress is worth acknowledging. What remains is the harder, less glamorous work of making the system deliver on what it has promised.
Todd Culver
A guest author for Bridge Magazine.
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Opinion | Direct care workers need better pay to help our most vulnerable
Direct care workers help people with developmental disabilities and mental health challenges with everything from counseling to bathing, but low pay and benefits drive workers away. Medicaid isn’t enough, the state must step up as well.
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Opinion | Michigan direct care workers, families headed for choppy waters
On Jan. 1, Michigan will no longer provide its $2 hourly pay increase for the direct care workers that families rely upon. As a result, they may lose the help and support they need to manage their households.