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Op-ed

Recognizing Caregivers

By Chris Bastardi Martini

3.6 million New Yorkers are sacrificing their personal and professional lives to care for another — going into debt, going uncounted, and keeping our home care and hospice systems afloat without recognition or support. Caregivers United for Equity seeks to change that.

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Press Release

Caregivers Deserve a Tax Credit, End to Medicaid "Conflict"

Caregivers United for Equity

Caregivers United for Equity proposes a $5,000 tax credit for the approximately 3.6 million New Yorkers who care for another, and calls for an end to the rule barring healthcare proxies from being compensated through Medicaid.

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Press Release

Republican, DSA Member Unite for Caregivers

Caregivers United for Equity

Childhood friends Christopher Bastardi Martini and Elizabeth Gonzalez — one on the political Right, one on the Left — announce the formation of Caregivers United for Equity, a PAC dedicated to compensating and supporting New York's 3.6 million family caregivers.

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