Governor Hochul and our state legislature must defend New Yorkers from Trump Medicaid cuts. They can #TaxTheRich to generate the funds! Join us for a rally and press conference next Wednesday to demand action for the half million of us who have already been hit by the cuts.

"Lawmakers seem to forget that, along with death and taxes, disability is a certainty in life." –Caring Majority Organizer, @Whlchrbeast, on the Trump DOJ Olmstead memo ICYMI, this memo questions the hard-won right for people with disabilities to live in the community. We can't go back to the days of forced institutionalization. readunwritten.com/2026/07/14…

VICTORY! CDPAP workers won preliminary approval for a $162 million wage-and-hour class action settlement for downstate workers. Our voices were heard – Caring Majority’s organizing over the last 2 years has put a spotlight on the pay and benefits issues and collective injustice CDPAP workers have faced. Our movement of workers, consumers, and family caregivers has spoken out on the harms of the CDPAP transition, organizing each other and ensuring our stories were heard across the media and internet. As a result, labor lawyers at @LegalAidNYC and @katzbanks took notice and looked into the wage issues themselves. Four personal assistants—Philip Calderon, Farshad Pinchasi, Allison Fields, and Dana Folgar—sued PPL on behalf of themselves and others, alleging that PPL violated state and federal law by, among other things, failing to pay them accurately and on time, and by providing benefits that did not comply with the New York Home Care Worker Wage Parity Act. We are proud to share the news that a $162 million settlement has almost been reached in their lawsuit with PPL & approx. 200k downstate CDPAP workers will be eligible for compensation (eligible personal assistants do not need to take any action now – they will receive formal notice of the settlement via email and text message). We have invited the legal team to join us for a PPL Settlement Teach-In w/ Legal Team to share more details about the settlement and answer questions people may have. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/ppl… We’re celebrating this win, and we will continue to fight to restore choice to CDPAP and win lasting justice for workers. Onward!

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

"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

🔥 @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."

"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

"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

"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

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

🔍 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!