; Whereas older adults who have home care and services available to them have better health and a higher quality of life; Whereas substandard wages and poor working conditions continue to fuel shortages and high turnover in the care industry; Whereas the median annual earnings for full-time childcare workers and home care workers is less than $30,000, and as a result, nearly 1 in 6 home care workers lives in poverty, and 1 out of every 3 childcare workers is experiencing food insecurity; Whereas COVID–19 both heightened the existing challenges and placed new stress on care workers, leading to burnout and exhaustion; Whereas the demand for home and community-based care services is growing because the population of adults who are 65 and older will nearly double by 2050, while currently 10,000 people per day are turning 65; Whereas 88 percent of aging adults prefer to receive long-term supports and services in home and community-based settings; Whereas across the United States, approximately 656,000 aging individuals and people with disabilities are on waiting lists to access home and community-based services through Medicaid; Whereas home care jobs are the jobs of the future, with this workforce projected to add more new jobs than any other single occupation in the country and will add more than 1 million new jobs from 2020 to 2030; Whereas home care is high-value work that provides services to millions of people deserving high quality jobs that reflect their value; Whereas unpaid caregiving economic value is estimated at $470,000,000,000; Whereas turnover and shortages in the care workforce are costly to the economy because they lead to higher costs for employers who need to continuously hire and train new workers; Whereas large-scale labor force exits due to childcare needs cost the economy an estimated $57,000,000,000 annually in lost income, productivity, and tax revenue