Home health aides work for low wages, but they're critical for elderly and disabled people. A proposal to inject billions of dollars in federal funding may be an opportunity for sweeping change.

Workers deserve substantive policy reforms that point the way to a better future, especially in this year of unprecedented crisis.

Long before the pandemic, the United States had a job quality problem. Since the late 1970s, real wages for typical American workers have seen little growth and have not kept pace with increasing productivity, and workers’ share of the economic pie has declined.