Home Care Workers' Fight for Fair Wages

Dan Clark: One issue that's already on the table for the state budget is higher pay for homecare workers. You'll remember that in last year's state budget those workers got a small pay bump of $2 above the minimum wage. But homecare workers say that didn't go far enough. They want their minimum wage set at around $22 an hour. State Senator Rachel May is a supporter of that idea, which is not part of Hochul’s budget plan.

Rachel May: I was very proud of what we got done last year in the budget, and I'm... disappointed isn't the right word, I'm very upset about what is in the governor's budget this year. We are going to fight as hard as we possibly can to make sure that we keep the minimum for homecare workers above the minimum wage.

DC: We'll keep an eye on that fight.