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# The New Deal devalued home care workers. Advocates hope new legislation can undo that.
- URL: https://werd.io/the-new-deal-devalued-home-care-workers-advocates-hope-new/
- Published: 2021-10-06T13:22:09.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-06T13:22:09.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

“The low pay and lack of benefits is a legacy of racism baked into President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, which left farm and domestic workers — many of them women, many people of color — out of the job and financial protections it offered. As Congress debates President Joe Biden’s proposed $3.5 trillion Build Back Better legislation, which includes funds for home care and provisions that would make it easier for care workers to organize, advocates for caregivers say it’s a chance for the country to show new respect for their work and move toward compensating it fairly.”

\[[Link](https://19thnews.org/2021/10/home-care-workers-new-deal-reconciliation/)\]