Candidate Amy Klobuchar Emphasizes Shortage of Home Care Workers

Presidential candidate Amy Klouchar, a U.S. senator from Minnesota, emphasized the shortage of home-care and other workers at this week's Iowa debate as well as in this opinion interview in The New York Times.

She's quoted in The Times as saying: "According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the fastest growing jobs in the country include: home health aides, personal care aides, information security analysts, occupational therapy assistants and a large number of other occupations that, as Senator Klobuchar points out, don’t rely on advanced degrees like M.B.A.s.

"So we’re not going to have a shortage of M.B.A.s or C.E.O.s. We’re going to have a shortage of plumbers. We’re going to have a shortage of home health care workers. We’re going to have over a million home health care workers open those jobs in the next 10 years, and we’re going to have a hundred and something thousand openings for nurse assistants and we’re to have 64,000 job openings for plumbers."

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