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The Workers Who Care for Us Can’t Afford to Get By

His professional life chose him. At first, Julio Godinez said, the move was obvious. His parents, living in his hometown of Hanford, California, were getting to the point where they both needed regular care, particularly his mother, who was battling cancer. Godinez, who’d been working at a nearby car dealership, was the person best suited to provide it. That was almost 20 years ago. Godinez’s mother died in 2011. By the time his father…