The Australian Industry Group and NDIS providers are attacking hard-won penalty rates of disability support workers. [Photo: Facebook/People with Disability Australia] In late 2023, the big business ...

As part of aged care reforms, the Australian government is taking a more coordinated approach in providing access to in-home care by replacing existing programmes with a more flexible and streamlined ...

Over 300 advocates rallied in Albany for better pay and support for care workers. Housing, childcare, and healthcare initiatives supported to ease worker costs. Investment in workforce stability can ...

Roughly 26% of Americans identify as Disabled, yet only 23% are employed compared to 66% of non-Disabled people. Many want to work, but doing so means that nearly two-thirds of unemployed Disabled ...

Disability care workers Ricardo Zegri and Niurka Sureda-Jackson sit outside the California state Capitol on April 10. Zegri says Taco Bell would pay him more than the $19 an hour he makes as a ...

A young disability support worker has opened up about the harsh reality of finding a rental property on the Sunshine Coast without uprooting the lives of her younger siblings, who are still reeling ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “If you don’t have those services, you might unnecessarily be institutionalized.” I ...

This year’s theme, ‘Rising as Me: Overcoming challenges, transforming, and finding your identity,’ reflects the experiences of care-experienced young people supported through the Shared Lives for ...