The home care worker shortage just got worse
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
More seniors are aging at home, alone. Today, we’ll explain why the home care worker shortage just went from bad to worse and why we likely blew a chance to fix it. Then, how a 100-year-old law is getting in the way of Puerto Rico recovering from Hurricane Fiona. Plus, spooky airplane sounds. And what’s that really bright star in the sky? Grab your binoculars. You won’t want to miss this!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Seniors are stuck home alone as health aides flee for higher-paying jobs” from The Washington Post
- “Storm-ravaged Puerto Rico calls on Washington to allow ship carrying fuel to dock” from NBC News
- “Women now outnumber men in the U.S. college-educated labor force” from Pew Research Center
- “People are fleeing Puerto Rico, Guam and every other U.S. territory. What gives?” from The Washington Post
- “Ghoulish moans are haunting the intercoms of American Airlines flights” from The Washington Post
- “Jupiter’s Exceptionally Close Opposition” from Sky & Telescope
- This tweet about the National Intelligence Manager for Aviation seal caught our attention
- Video: “DART’s Impact with Asteroid Dimorphos”
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| 0:00.0 | I guess we'll start then. |
| 0:04.0 | I guess we'll start. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello everyone, I am Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Kai Rizdallet. |
| 0:15.0 | It is a Monday. |
| 0:16.0 | We're going to do the use, which is, if you're new to the podcast, |
| 0:19.0 | it's news and then make me smaller too. |
| 0:21.0 | And then we will set you on your merry way. |
| 0:24.0 | So, Ms. Adams, let us begin with the news. |
| 0:27.0 | You go first. |
| 0:28.0 | Yes, this is, you know, news is supposed to be new. |
| 0:31.0 | This isn't exactly new, but it's a good analysis of it. |
| 0:34.0 | But it's an ongoing issue. |
| 0:36.0 | I know, really sell them at our entie. |
| 0:39.0 | This is an ongoing issue that gets, is being highlighted in the |
| 0:44.0 | Washington Post hat tip to our editor, editor Stephanie Seek, |
| 0:48.0 | here at Marketplace, who put this in Slack today. |
| 0:51.0 | The headline is, seniors are stuck home alone as health aides |
| 0:55.0 | flee for higher paying jobs. |
| 0:58.0 | And it's chocked full of numbers, but the gist of it is there are |
| 1:02.0 | a lot of people getting older and needing help at home, |
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