Dear Supporter,

What's good for workers is good for the nation.

Like labor day - we all get a day off.

Domestic workers have found time and time again that improving life for workers improves everything. That's why this summer the National Domestic Workers Alliance, along with a broad coalition of senior, disability, community and labor organizations, launched a new movement to create and improve millions of jobs and ensure quality care for our loved ones: Caring Across Generations.

As the nation ages and the baby boomer generation begins to turn 65, more and more domestic workers are being called upon to take care of the aging. NDWA members who provide care for the aging asked for training — to better prepare them for their work. In the process of looking for training, we began conversations with direct care workers, including home care workers, who described working conditions that were not sustainable. Workers are burning out left and right, because the quality of jobs and the wages are so poor. We can't sustain the workforce we have doing this work.

And then we began talking with seniors and people with disabilities who are struggling to afford the care they need. The current programs that support care for the aging and people with disabilities are not meeting the need, especially as we head into this major demographic shift. The lives and stories of care workers and those who count on care workers and attendants to meet their basic daily needs are tied together — we are interdependent. Our solutions should connect our needs. And in those connections, we can improve life for everyone.

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On Thursday, President Obama will be making a speech about jobs. We have a solution: 2 million new, quality jobs in home care. The Caring Across Generations policy proposal offers a plan to create new jobs, improve the quality of existing jobs, and make sure a tremendous social need will be met, without undue burden on families.

Yet another example of what's good for workers being good for the nation.

For too long, we've operated with the notion that what's good for corporations is good for the nation. That is what got us into this jobs crisis to begin with. We need instead to invest in people, in the workers whose dignity is the dignity of the nation.

Join us — in the spirit of labor day, it's time to turn things around.

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