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The Guardian - US
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Michael Sainato

‘$15 an hour is not enough’: US domestic workers rally on eve of midterms

Care workers protest for better working conditions in Washington last year.
Care workers protest for better working conditions in Washington last year. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

As America heads to the polls, representatives of the more than 2 million workers in domestic jobs – from caring for the sick, elderly and disabled to cleaning homes – are making a last-minute midterms push to make sure their voices are heard.

Diondre Clarke, a certified nursing assistant in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been canvassing in nearby Winston-Salem to boost voter turnout in the critical swing state.

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