Payment for caring work
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Pay People to Cook at Home
By KRISTIN WARTMAN
Published: May 10, 2013
THE home-cooked family meal is often lauded as the solution for...
Mothers are the primary carers everywhere in the world. Caring for children, sick, disabled and elderly people is work vital to society.
Carers are impoverished. Income Support is being abolished. Child Benefit, society’s commitment to children, is no longer universal. Carer’s Allowance is insultingly low and most carers don’t even qualify. 200,000 care workers are...
The Welfare State is being destroyed. For the first time since 1945, our right to survive is under threat. Caring – in the home, hospitals, schools, and every institution – is being attacked.
We are launching a petition to defend caring. Society must invest in mothers and other carers – the foundation of any society.
The petition Invest in a caring society....
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