How to care for the people who take care of us (w/ Ai-jen Poo)
How to Be a Better Human
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The Onion, It's a Curtain Made of Onions
It's so revealing of our kind of system for how we value things in society that the person who takes care of our loved one who raised us is about a third of what, say, a personal trainer is paid. Up until the Obama administration, it was perfectly legal to pay a home care worker less than the minimum wage. The history of how this work became devalued in our laws is deeply tied to the history of slavery and racism in our country.
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