discussed the difficulties of serving as a homecare worker and discuss the attacks on homecare worker unions. please proceed. >> good afternoon. my name is melody benjamin, i'm a homecare worker from chicago aside and a proud member of sei you healthcare in illinois. i want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to allow me to why hit and what have in a union means for working people means. and why the efforts to divide us hurt our country. in our union, we have the same as homecare workers, invisible no more. that is because before that, brave homecare workers back in the late '80s organize the home care workers. they were only making as little as a dollar an hour. nobody was recognized how hard overwork it is and demanding it is. and basically give us real wages. nobody here has more homecare workers have joined together in my union, we continue to speak out for better wages, and other improvements. for the work that we love. alone we are invisible, but together were unstoppable. like those who allow people with disabilities to live in home, i have been through this, i was 28 ye

so that people with disabilities have no option for homecare right now. that our providers are paid is only $14 an hour so it's extremely hard to get providers to come help us in the home. on top of that there is the issue of curb cuts and basic access in restaurants and businesses where we might have an access to the front door but we cannot access the bathroom or get to the basic areas and just recently i have been yelled at by business owners just for being in a wheelchair in their business because they don't want me there. and they don't want me asking for anything. so i bring this to your attention with the hope that this can be addressed. i have brought some of these issues to mofd's staff at last month's meeting and i hope for some follow-up and investigation into these crucial issues. thank you for your time. >> co-chair sehaux: thank you, zack. we're going to -- any other public comment at this time? >> no. >> co-chair sehaux: okay, thank you. we'll go ahead and close public comment and go to information item number 4 which is the co-chair report

let's discuss this with colin angel from the uk homecare association. he's in our london newsroom. last 11! years looking at the stability of the home care market. so in your view, in your experienced view, do you think it is fair to call this a major funding view, do you think it is fair to call this a majorfunding crisis? yes, without doubt. objections to the ageing population that we have in the uk clearly means that we are going to be paying more and more for ca re going to be paying more and more for care in the future. and the funding has not kept up over the years. particularly as a result of austerity, so we see massive underfunding of social care at the moment. i think the local government association are quite right to say we are going to need to fund care at a considerably higher level than we currently do. what do you think adults in england are missing out as adults in england are missing out as a result of this funding care crisis, in your view? so colleagues at age uk, national charity, estimates that about 1 million people in england are facing living with a social