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Valerie Joseph retweeted
This morning we gathered in Brooklyn's Little Haiti neighborhood to demand protections for Haitian immigrant home care workers as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to rule this summer on Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants living and working in the United States.
Haitian immigrants are essential to New York City’s home care industry, caring for elderly and disabled neighbors, showing up every day to provide the personal assistance that allows New Yorkers to remain in their homes and out of costly institutions. New York's home care industry is facing a compounding crisis: immigrant workers already battling wage theft and low wages now face the threat of losing their legal right to work entirely.
We’re demanding both fair wages and labor protections for home care workers and urgent action to shield the immigrant workforce that the industry cannot function without.
With @BCID_Change @nychange @thenyic @domesticworkers @CID_NY
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Valerie Joseph retweeted
"CDPAP used to be safe. It was created by and for people who can live in the community but just need that extra level of care.
Many of the FIs that the Hochul administration calls corrupt created the program and allowed people like myself to transition out of nursing homes and live independently in the community." —Jose Hernandez, @NYAIL
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Valerie Joseph retweeted
🔥 @JumaaneWilliams: "Public health should not be managed by private equity. At least 90k consumers have fled CDPAP into expensive traditional and nursing home care – something people warned would happen before the transition was made to PPL.
CDPAP providers are going without pay out of love for the person they’re caring for. Consumers are losing choice. This is not care."
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Valerie Joseph retweeted
"My PA has been with me for 26 years. She’s like family. She found out PPL never took taxes from her, so now she’s in debt.
I feel responsible because she wanted to leave CDPAP from Day 1 but stayed bc she doesn’t want to leave me alone. When I call PPL, as always, they never help. She’s constantly on the phone with them to try to get this resolved." —Iris Jimenez, CDPAP Consumer
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Valerie Joseph retweeted
"I've said from the very beginning when the transition to PPL started – This is a big scam. If the idea is to push us into nursing homes, which I think it is, I rather be dead.
When I try to get fill-in staff, as soon as they hear the word "PPL" they say "no thank you." –Iris Jimenez, Consumer
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Valerie Joseph retweeted
"CDPAP has grown because it’s popular and it works.
We need transparency because we must be able to really look at that data, those numbers, those so-called “savings." I will continue to fight until we get the Home Care Transparency Act passed.” -@votejgr
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Valerie Joseph retweeted
NOW: Home care workers, consumers, & lawmakers demand transparency & public accountability into NY's $11B contract w/ private equity-backed PPL.
As many as 150k workers & 90k consumers have fled CDPAP due to PPL's payment failures, most switching to more expensive traditional home care.
@domesticworkers @CID_NY @NYFiscalPolicy @CommonCause
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Valerie Joseph retweeted
🔍 Wondering what DOH Commissioner has to say for himself as the CDPAP program collapses under private equity control?
Follow along with us here today for the Joint Legislative Budget Hearing on Health & Medicaid! Our Political Director, Ilana, will also be testifying!
ALT Screenshot of live feed. It says, New York State Assembly , New York state Legislature Joint Budget Hearing, Health/Medicaid. Tuesday, February 10, 2026, Will Begin Shortly
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Valerie Joseph retweeted
30 Dec 2025
Ladies you need to be aware of this if your getting into ubers or lyfts amd Taxis. 🤔
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21 Aug 2025
Urgent: please like and share live tweet thread !!!!! We’re gonna take PPL down 🔥 x.com/caringmrising/status/1…
21 Aug 2025
NOW: We’re inside the NY Senate hearing, where PPL and the Department of Health will be in the hot seat answering for their failures in @GovKathyHochul’s disastrous CDPAP transition. Consumers, workers, and Caring Majority will also be testifying! Follow this thread for live updates 🔥
@JamesSkoufis @NYSenatorRivera
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Valerie Joseph retweeted
18 Aug 2025
ICYMI: Caring Majority leaders & @GovKathyHochul's CDPAP disaster made national news last week! The nation's watching as PPL takes the hot seat @ this week's Senate hearing. Truth's out that PPL's takeover of NY's home care has harmed consumers & workers.
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mot…
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Valerie Joseph retweeted
13 Aug 2025
BREAKING: Our very own Renee Christian and
@GovKathyHochul's PPL disaster have made NATIONAL NEWS!
When private equity-backed companies like PPL are entrusted to administer home care services like CDPAP, profit supersedes care. Here in New York, consumers and the trusted workers they rely on have had their lives upended.
'"I’m trying to hire new staff...But it’s hard when you have to tell your new hires, ‘I can’t guarantee you’re going to get paid on time or get the appropriate amount of hours,' said Christian."
This in-depth national coverage shows we are in a watershed moment. The record is clear for all to see that this transition has deteriorated care for so many disabled and aging people, and cost home care workers their livelihoods. That despite Hochul's claims, it will cost New Yorkers MORE taxpayer dollars.
So let's keep demanding: end PPL's contract NOW and hold them accountable for the harm they've caused, reinstate trusted FIs to restore consumer choice ... LET'S #SaveCDPAP!
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mot…
ALT NBC NEWS SCREENSHOT. HEADLINE: Mother with cerebral palsy struggles to hire aides after private equity takeover SUBHEAD: In the hands of financiers, a New York Medicaid program that lets disabled and elderly participants live at home is under fire. By Gretchen Morgenson August 13 2025 Photo of Renee Christian, a white woman with her hair in a bun, smiling, wearing a floral shirt, using a wheelchair. Excerpt of the article that says: Renee Christian, a single mom with cerebral palsy, lives in Buffalo, New York, with her 12-year-old daughter. Although her condition forced her to spend most of her childhood at a nursing home, she has resided in her own home for years with the help of personal assistants she hires under a New York State Medicaid program. In April, however, Christian’s life was upended when the state forced her and her assistants to work with a new company administering the nation’s largest consumer-directed personal assistance program, called CDPAP...
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Here was a clip from a rally that happened last week in Manhattan in regards to PPL. I happen to know the woman who is speaking and she’s very outspoken and a very, very good advocate.
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Valerie Joseph retweeted
25 Apr 2025
BREAKING: President Trump has signed an executive order affirming that all citizens should be treated equally under the law, emphasizing meritocracy and a colorblind society over race- or s*x-based favoritism.
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Valerie Joseph retweeted
31 Mar 2025
🚨🧵COUNTDOWN TO CHAOS: Tomorrow, PPL takes over ALL home care for 280,000 disabled & elderly NYers. Half still haven't enrolled.
@GovKathyHochul says it's easy to sign up. Here are the nightmare stories from real NYers who've tried:
#DelayTheDeadline
28 Mar 2025
🚨🧵A CRISIS IN THE MAKING: Today, all FIs in NY begin shutting down. 100,000s of NYers are on the verge of losing home care.
@GovKathyHochul claims it’s easy to transition care over to PPL. Here’s the truth, direct from consumers—
#DelayTheDeadline
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