A policy manifesto for paying, protecting, and empowering essential workers – Brookings

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America is forcing these essential workers to live in the shadows – Karen Tumulty/WaPost

“Nearly 1 in 5 people in the essential workforce — people who cleaned hospitals during the pandemic, who provided home health care and child care, who kept food coming to our tables, who built temporary clinics — do not have permanent legal authorization to live in this country.”