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There's A Looming Home Health Care Worker Shortage

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Published December 14, 2018 at 12:52 PM CST

More than 2 million people are employed as home health care workers in the U.S. It’s one of the county’s fastest-growing careers, but many of those positions are going unfilled. The worker shortage is amounting to a crisis in the sector. Amy Costello (@tinyspark_org), senior correspondent for The Nonprofit Quarterly, reports.