Home-care workers nationwide took to the streets last week to join fast-food employees in calling for a $15-an-hour minimum wage. But analysts say that kind of pay hike may be unrealistic for home health providers, many of whom have been squeezed in recent years by state Medicaid pay cuts.
Low-wage workers in as many as 150 U.S. cities protested to demand higher pay and broader workers' rights. On Chicago's South Side, about 50 home-care workers were part of a crowd of more than 200 lining the sidewalks in front of a McDonald's restaurant holding picket signs that read “Fight for 15.”