We have to get this done. Maybe there's not a specific date, but I mean, how long, how many weeks can we go past the June 30 deadline? If we don't continue it [the budget], we revert from like almost $16 an hour... back to that 13. which still is not enough. But it's expensive. It's an expensive program. We go back to that 13, and I don't know how we pull the rug out from under these workers to say, you know, thanks, this was a bump. (05:59–06:10)
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Asserts that without a new budget, the rate for personal care workers will revert to approximately $13 per hour.
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