Some doubt whether these are the answer to the industry's chronic instability.
Unless home care labor standards are improved, the industry's chronic problems with recruitment and retention will continue.
Yes, Mr. Obama is confronting two low-intensity wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a recession, rising unemployment, a failed auto industry and chronic health care, education, energy and environmental problems.
Certainly, the oil money Chávez has plowed into poor neighborhoods (at the expense of an oil industry suffering chronic underinvestment) has reduced poverty.
"Darling!" In another part of the tent, Richard Lambertson, who, with his partner, John Truex, would win the top accessories award, was sanguine about the fashion industry's chronic refusal to be impressed by what, to the onlookers who had gathered near the reflecting pool, would probably have seemed fabulous.
Funded in 2012 by Jimmy Louchart, Joffroy Louchart and David Vauthrin, Finalcad has set out to solve the construction industry's "chronic low productivity" problem.
"The chronic industry crisis will continue into 2009 with $2.5 billion in losses," said Giovanni Bisignani, the chief executive of the association, based in Geneva.
Until last summer, the office sat largely empty as the local auto industry faced a chronic labor shortage, drawing workers from across Japan and as far away as Brazil and Peru.
It's also an industry that experiences chronic labor shortages.
