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Ariama C. Long
- Home health care workers are pushing back against 24-hour work shifts while earning staggeringly low pay.
- Home care advocates say long hours and low pay have gone unchecked.
- The city council maintains that the home health care industry is a state issue, and passing a local law wouldn’t help.
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