A third of major housing associations surveyed by the Guardian are accredited living wage providers, with a further third paying the living wage without official accreditation.
"Yet, you would think that given around 70% of costs relate to staff wages, providers would be rushing out of their nursery doors jumping for joy at the prospect of increasing revenue - but it's the reverse".
Schwarzenegger has also mounted a campaign aimed at branding IHSS consumers and the low-wage providers who care for them as "fraud criminals".
These institutions will compete for workers based on their wage rates, budgets, provider payment practices, benefits packages, working conditions, and other labour regulations and rules.
Up to 30,000 jobs – one in 10 – in learning disability services could be axed over the next four years as rises in the government's "national living wage" (NLW) hit providers particularly hard, according to the analysis.
In fact, when adjusted for inflation, home care provider wages actually decreased by five percent in the ten-year period from 2003 to 2013.
Male patients, on the other hand, appeared more concerned about their disrupted roles as wage earners and providers.
In fact, the annual increase in wage bill for one provider with 100 full-time workers would be £96,000.
Secondly, that it reduces in-work poverty by getting the Low Pay Commission to deliver a higher minimum wage, rewards employment support providers for the earnings people receive not just for finding them a job and reallocates Budget 2013 childcare funding from higher rate taxpayers to help those on Universal Credit meet more of their childcare costs.
We must fight for a living wage for home care providers, demand that workers receive paid sick leave, and advocate for training and growth opportunities.
