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Housing & Health to End Homelessness

UW study finds systematic wage inequities for essential social service workers

Posted on by Claire Tuohy-Morgan
May 11, 2023

Non-profit human services workers are critical to building and maintaining the human, social, and institutional strengths of communities. Yet, human services wages are systematically lower compared with other sectors and industries.

You can read the study here.

You can also read DESC’s take on supporting our essential behavioral health work force.

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