{"id":48538,"date":"2015-02-24T02:56:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T02:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/time_magazine_10_questions_with_elder_care_thinker_ai-jen_poo\/"},"modified":"2015-02-24T02:56:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T02:56:22","slug":"time_magazine_10_questions_with_elder_care_thinker_ai-jen_poo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48538","title":{"rendered":"(Time Magazine) 10 Questions With Elder Care Thinker Ai-jen Poo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elder care is also often done for low wages by new or undocumented immigrants. Will that change?<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing in the \u201920s and \u201930s was sweatshop work, largely done by new immigrants. We turned factory work into good jobs with pathways to opportunities. That professionalization was the basis for 20th century prosperity. That\u2019s what the care workforce needs to be. These have the potential to be really good jobs.<\/p>\n<p>You compare investing in home-care workers to investing in railways or the Internet. But aren\u2019t those about growth, not dying?<\/p>\n<p>For working-age adults right now, especially with what they call the sandwich generation\u201d\u201cpeople who are caring for children and aging parents\u201d\u201cthis is having an impact on their productivity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3706691\/10-questions-with-ai-jen-poo\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elder care is also often done for low wages by new or undocumented immigrants. Will that change? Manufacturing in the \u201920s and \u201930s was sweatshop work, largely done by new immigrants. We turned factory work into good jobs with pathways<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48538\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,103,175,101,149,168,104,597,98,136,177,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-aging-the-elderly","category-anthropology","category-children","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-marriage-family","category-middle-age","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}