Advocates, including from Long Island, call for better pay and affordable housing for DSPs as rising costs and federal cuts ...

Credit: Getty Images Health care workers with disabilities face significant challenges, such as employment discrimination, lack of accessibility, and ableism. Nurses constitute the largest group of ...

Kathy Hochul offers a 2.5% cost-of-living increase in her budget plan. State lawmakers want an 8.5% hike for direct-care professionals. Advocates and nonprofits that employ DSPs say that's still not ...

At the onset of the pandemic, as most of the country shuttered themselves inside to avoid COVID-19 infection, home health aides remained on the front lines, taking care of our loved ones and risking ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — The Developmental Disability Alliance of Western New York (DDAWNY) says its own field is facing a severe shortage of workers due to an inability to recruit and retain direct ...

The worker shortage in the North Country doesn’t just affect employees and businesses. It can alter the lives of people who rely on those workers. A shortage of aides at group homes is having a big ...

Andrea Howell, a direct care worker in Olathe, takes the blood pressure of a client ahead of their special Friday night dinner. Missouri and Kansas service providers are working long hours, ...

Support care worker on pay equity claim law change (7 min 47 sec) A disability support worker affected by the pay equity law change is challenging ACT Minister Brooke van Velden to do her job for a ...