C of C 2-9-13 "Home Economics: The Invisible and Unregulated World of Domestic Work"
Channel: Tim Bolger
Date: 2013-02-27

Meeting # 3,207 - Prof. Nik Theodore, an author of the study and an associate professor of urban policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Per an article in the New York Times:  "Nannies, caregivers and housecleaners earn a median wage of about $10 an hour, and few receive benefits like health insurance or paid sick days, according to the first-ever national statistical study of domestic workers, which is being released on Tuesday. 
The study, based on interviews with 2,086 workers in 14 major metropolitan areas, found substantial differences in pay across ethnicity, immigration status and whether the worker lived with her employer. 
The report found that the median wage for nannies was $11 an hour, compared with a $10-an-hour median for caregivers and housecleaners. But 23 percent of the workers earned less than their state's minimum wage, which varies but must be at least the federal level of $7.25 an hour."