The nonprofit, Time to Care: Save Texas Caregivers Now, is asking state lawmakers to raise their pay from $10.60 to $15 an hour on average.
Sometimes Rochelle Rojas contemplates leaving her job as a personal care worker for Texans with disabilities to get a higher-paying job, maybe somewhere like McDonalds or in retail. But then she thinks about how one of her clients, a woman in her 20s with Down syndrome, cried for days the last time Rojas couldn’t show up to work because she had COVID-19.
Nearly 200,000 disabled Texans are waiting for the state’s help — some for longer than a decade “I had to video chat her on my good days because she was distraught,” said Rojas, 45, who is the home supervisor of a group home in Amarillo. “That’s the quality of care we give … We’re family.” On Monday, a newly formed coalition of Texas disability advocates made an emergency request for about $66 million in state funds to immediately boost the wages of care workers in group homes like Rojas.
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