Fresno County healthcare providers cannot afford medicine? They want a raise

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Home attraction providers and nursing location workers are advocating for higher wages - officials accidental they marque little than $20 per hour, making them incapable to spend medicine.

According to officials, the Fresno In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) location attraction providers gathered Tuesday astatine the Fresno County Board of Supervisors to proceed advocating for livable wages and healthcare benefits successful their existent declaration aft requesting it for years.

Officials with the national accidental the county's existent IHSS wage is $17.10 an hr - the wage is astir $3 little than that of a accelerated nutrient worker, whose wages reached $20 per hr pursuing the passing of a California instrumentality successful 2024.

Additionally, the national says 4 retired of each 5 location attraction providers and nursing location workers person reported having to enactment aggregate jobs, astatine slightest immoderate of the time, conscionable to marque ends meet. They person besides been reportedly relying connected CalFresh and nutrient banks monthly and person not been capable to entree medicine due to the fact that they could not spend it.

The national says the outgo of surviving successful Fresno County went up by 38.4% implicit the past 9 years, portion the county's supervisors raised the wages of their location attraction providers during that aforesaid play by a full of 4.6% - an enactment that the national says increases the shortage situation of attraction providers crossed the county.

Yourcentralvalley.com reached retired to Fresno County for a effect but hasn't heard back.