It’s time to invest in more economic opportunities for local workers and a healthier future for our children.
Who are we?
Western PA Cares is a network of organizations working together to create the region we need: one where everyone is cared for, every job is a good job, and every family has access to safe, clean air and water and stable, secure housing.
What do we do?
We unite workers in the caregiving and service sectors with organizations, community leaders, and elected officials who are pushing for bold federal investment in our nation’s care system.
We know how to improve our local economy and keep our family and neighbors safe: we need investments in safer and more equitable infrastructure networks focused on ensuring long-term community resiliency and creating good, family-sustaining jobs.
Together, we can shape the good jobs of the future.
We can ensure that our loved ones receive the high quality, compassionate care they deserve while investing in the workers who care for us and make all other economic activity possible. We can come together to take action to heal our climate, earn a good living, and create the country we need: one where everyone is cared for, has the ability to earn a fair return on our work, and has what we need to get and stay healthy.
Investing in Pennsylvania’s Caregivers
The energy sector has been the focal point of our region's economic development strategy for decades, but the future of work in Pennsylvania is in service and care jobs. One million home care jobs will be needed in the next decade alone. But, we have to make sure those jobs are good jobs. While home care is our nation’s fastest growing profession, Pennsylvania home care workers earn an average hourly wage of only $12.17. And, the changing climate makes care work even harder – reducing the accessibility and quality of services and compounding the racial and gender inequality that the burden of unpaid care work creates.
Western PA Cares
Good union jobs in growing industries like childcare, health care, education, and renewable energy.
A region where our loved ones receive the high quality, compassionate care they deserve, and where large corporations pay what they owe so that everyone can thrive.
Investment in the workers who care for us and make all other economic activity possible.
Communities where we care for our families and have clean air and clean water, free from toxic pollution.
Join Us
By joining together across race and place, we can demand the policies and investments that keep our families safe and well while making this a place where all of us can thrive.
By joining together across race and place, we can demand the policies and investments that keep our families safe and well while making this a place where all of us can thrive.
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