Ai-jen Poo, a leading labor activist and founder of National Domestic Workers Alliance, says we’re unprepared for the home and healthcare needs of the very near future. “The sandwich generation are the working people enduring the pressures of both elder care and childcare—that generation has so little support available to them, and the numbers to pay for care just aren’t adding up,” says Ai-jen in this interview with Ray Suarez. “But one thing that we do know for sure is that these jobs of caring for our children and our parents are jobs that are here to stay. These are jobs that are only going to be increasingly important as the aging population in the United States grows exponentially.”
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