Home healthcare is propping up the labor market, but fewer hours, high burnout, and an immigration crackdown threaten to topple it

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Home healthcare workers make up less than 3% of the total jobs, but KPMG senior economist Matthew Nestler sees reason to pay attention—and reason to be concerned.

“The current system right now is unsustainable,” he told Fortune, “and [it’s] buckling before we’re hit with this massive aging and retiring of the baby boomers—the largest generation ever to age and retire.”