America's Growing Home Care Workforce Faces a Middle-Class Pay Challenge

America’s aging population is rapidly increasing demand for home care workers, but many jobs pay too little to support a family, according to Bloomberg. Ai-jen Poo of the National Domestic Workers Alliance says the country will need hundreds of thousands more home care workers in the coming decades. Harvard economist Lawrence Katz says workforce expansion alone will not be enough if workers have little opportunity to advance. The challenge is whether care work can follow manufacturing’s path from low-wage labor to a stable route to the middle class.