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Why it may get even harder to find caregivers for America’s aging – The Washington Post
Jonas Atta-Kyereme, left, is a caregiver for David Reese, 85, a retired pediatrician who lives at Goodwin House Alexandria, one of Goodwin Living’s senior living facilities in Virginia. (Maxine Wallace / The Washington Post)The business of caring for older Americans is in a deepening crisis
Government funding cuts, caregiver shortages and immigration limits are adding new strains to an industry that’s already hard-pressed to meet demand.
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Jonas Atta-Kyereme helps 85-year-old David Reese dress in the morning and prepare for bed at night. He makes sure the retired pediatrician takes his medicine, and calms him when he gets anxious looking for his wife,Jane, who died last year.
It’s a typical shift for Atta-Kyereme, a caregiver who began working in Reese’s home after the older man sustained a traumatic brain injury during a fall last year.
“He needed 24-7 care,” said Reese’s brother-in-law George Sullivan. “He didn’t even recognize his own home that he’d lived in for 50 years.”
Home health workers and caregivers like Atta-Kyereme, who immigrated from Ghana two years ago, fill a critical role in the health care ecosystem as America ages and demand for caregivers soars.But government funding cuts, a caregiver shortage and immigration limits are layering new strains on an industry already hard-pressed to meet demand: Home health and personal care openings are projected to jump 17 percent from 2024 to 2034, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and home health spending is expected to nearly double,to $317 billion, in 2033.
Atta-Kyereme and his wife were both teachers in Ghana before immigrating to the U.S., enrolling in certified nursing assistant programs and becoming home health aides, he said. (Maxine Wallace / The Washington Post)Costs are fast increasing: Spending on at-home elder care shot up 7 percent from August to September, the largest monthly increase on record, according to government data. Nursing home costs rose 4 percent from September 2024 to September 2025, while home health care surged 12 percent, far exceeding the 3 percent overall rise in inflation during that time.
The U.S. elder care industry is caught between competing forces as demand swells: Many families say they would prefer in-home care but can’t afford it. Yet the industry struggles to attract people willing to take on the intimate, labor-intensive work of caregiving, largely because of the low pay. For a home health or personal care aide, the median salary was $34,900 annually or $16.78 an hour. Nurses and other medically trained staff who also attend to seniors at home earn more.
Even retail and restaurant jobs can offer better compensation, said Jake Krilovich, chief executive of the Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts. When his state passed a $15 minimum wage, “we saw a lot of the workforce migrate as a result of that.”
The tension is rapidly coming to the fore as changes in immigration policy threaten to squeeze the workforce. While foreign-born workers make up 19 percent of the U.S. labor force, they accounted for about 1 in 3 home care workers in 2023, according to a KFF analysis.
After the U.S. ramped up immigration enforcement under its Secure Communities policy, the home care workforce shrank 7.5 percent between 2008 and 2013, according to a 2025 study by professors at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania. The data also showed that older adults in need of assistance were 5 percent less likely to get home care.
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Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland to escape Trump. Did it work? – The Washington Post
Rosie O’Donnell’s life in exile
She moved to Ireland to escape Trump. Did it work? Today at 5:00 a.m. EST
For Rosie O’Donnell, the first Trump administration was tough enough. She had to distance herself from the second one. (Doreen Kilfeather / For The Washington Post)For Rosie O’Donnell, the first Trump administration was tough enough. She had to distance herself from the second one. (Doreen Kilfeather/For The Washington Post), 16 min
By Geoff Edgers
DUBLIN — “Welcome to Ireland, Rosie,” said the woman walking toward her as she headed back from the store on Halloween night with candy. The passerby — a total stranger to Rosie O’Donnell — added blithely: “We hate him, too.”
Everyone here seems to recognize the American entertainer and know why she left the United States to move here in January.
“I felt on the verge of crying when I was there, when he got elected,” O’Donnell told an Irish television audience during a talk show appearance in March. Rosie O’Donnell
She’s a sensitive soul, a giant exposed nerve who has posed, successfully, for most of her life and career as a brassy Long Island toughie. Donald Trump’s first administration took an emotional toll on the die-hard liberal, even as she tweeted and marched and spit invective against the president every chance she got.
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Opinion -In Venezuela, Trump sees a war for presidential glory – The Washington Post
Venezuela reveals what Trump covets most
Leading in war is the hallmark of great American presidents.
December 3, 2025, 4 min.
Of all the ways to understand President Donald Trump’s belligerence toward Venezuela — as a campaign against “narcoterrorists,” a play for its oil reserves, a desire to control the Western Hemisphere — the most overlooked is the outcome he covets more than all those things combined: greatness. For Trump, Venezuela is not just a geopolitical question. It is an opportunity to lead in war, a hallmark of presidents considered the nation’s best.
No one runs for the White House to be pedestrian. Every president has a theory of greatness. For some, it’s decisiveness in transformative moments — the mix of judgment, personality and courage brought to bear in times of profound uncertainty. For others, it’s reflected in how much the nation bends — or bows — to the presidency. And for a few, it’s more formulaic: Create a list of presidential to-dos and simply check the boxes.
Being considered among the greats remains one of Trump’s deepest interests. He declared at a joint session of Congress in March that the first month of his second administration was “the most successful in the history of our nation,” before adding, “you know who No. 2 is? George Washington.” Last year, he told a convening of Black journalists, “I have been the best president for the Black population since Abraham Lincoln.” He recently posted to social media that his proposed 50-year mortgage policy makes him a great American president like Franklin D. Roosevelt. His open lobbying for the Nobel Peace Prize, describing every policy action in superlatives, and even the construction of a White House ballroom point to a preoccupation with glory.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon’s posture has transformed the Caribbean into a theater of war. For months, the military has struck private vessels in international waters that it alleges are running drugs destined for the United States. (An order to kill stranded mariners in those operations has become its own national story.) Trump declared the airspace over Venezuela closed, effectively establishing a commercial no-fly zone. The largest U.S. flotilla the Caribbean has seen since the Cold War sits within striking distance, part of a force of about 15,000. And he’s taken the highly unusual step of announcing ongoing covert operations in Venezuela. These are telltale actions of a nation preparing for battle.
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Opinion | America is losing scientists. Here’s a solution – The Washington Post
A researcher studies a skin sample in a lab at the University of Illinois in Chicago on March 5. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)The best and brightest scientists won’t put up with this
The assumption that top researchers will endure any visa hardship to stay in the U.S. is obsolete.
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By Chris R. Glass, Chris R. Glass, a professor of the practice at Boston College, researches international student mobility and global talent flows.
America’s scientific dominance was never inevitable; in the 1920s, serious PhDs went to Europe. World War II changed everything. Afterward, the United States built an unmatched innovation ecosystem with massive federal investment in basic science coupled with risk-tolerant capital markets to commercialize new discoveries.
American policymakers grasped a crucial insight: They were investing in people, not just research. As scientists became strategic national assets, immigration policy was redesigned to recruit them.
America’s advantage persists. But bureaucratic ossification now threatens it, as our global rivals pick off the best and brightest that we have trained but can’t retain — unless we change our visa system.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warned last year that the U.S. lacks a “whole-of-government talent strategy” for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Though U.S. universities rank first globally on research quality, our visa system is among the slowest and least predictable in the developed world. Our talent policy assumes that top researchers will endure any visa lottery or processing delay to stay in the U.S. That assumption is obsolete.
Both our allies and our adversaries have created visa systems that are faster, simpler and more certain. China’s new K-visa targets young STEM talent, and its Qiming Program recruits top scientists with $420,000 to $700,000 signing bonuses and full housing subsidies. Germany’s Opportunity Card allows skilled workers in before they find jobs. Britain’s High Potential Individual visa requires no job offer, just a top university degree. Japan’s J-Find gives recent PhD graduates two years to job-hunt or launch companies. And there are more.
Open Doors, an annual survey tracking international student enrollment in the U.S., reports significant growth in international PhD enrollment (up 25 percent over the past decade). Yet the Organization for Economic and Commercial Development’s 2023 Talent Attractiveness indicators ranked the United States eighth among OECD countries for highly skilled workers but note that it would have ranked second if not for its visa policies. Competitors have noticed and are happy to accept the talent we train but fail to keep.
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