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Home Care Hardship

SEIU lobbies for raises in Illinois

By Kari Lydersen

As a home health care worker for elderly and disabled indigent people, 29-year-old Regina Hagerman takes temperatures, cleans rooms, helps patients dress and administers medication, among other tasks. She raises her five children in Chicago on $13,806 a year, working 45 hours a week at $5.90 an hour. She is also suffering from ovarian cancer. And like most of the… return to article

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