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Caring Majority Rising
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Caring Majority Rising is a political movement of people with disabilities, older adults, family caregivers, and home care workers.
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Caring Majority Rising @caringmrising.bsky.social · Dec 10
INTRODUCING: The #CareNotCorruption Campaign

Platform:

⭐️ Pass #FairPayforHomeCare
⭐️ End the PPL Monopoly & Restore Choice to CDPAP
⭐️ Eliminate private insurance middlemen from NY’s home care system
⭐️ Invest in our care & prevent Medicaid cuts by TAXING THE RICH
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Governor Hochul sold out both those receiving home care and those giving it to enrich private equity.

@caringmrising.bsky.social is right to use the 2026 primary for governor to fight her corporate neoliberal agenda.

@delgadoforny.bsky.social is running with all the right positions on health care.
caringmrising.bsky.social Caring Majority Rising @caringmrising.bsky.social · 17d
Delgado joined our Care Not Corruption campaign launch and signed onto our campaign platform. Among his promises:

✅ Pass Fair Pay for Home Care
✅ Eliminate private equity and private insurance middlemen from NY’s home care
✅ #SaveCDPAP
✅ Tax the Rich to defend Medicaid
✅ Pass the NY Health Act
January 6, 2026 at 3:14 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
Caring Majority Rising is thrilled to announce that we are endorsing Antonio Delgado for Governor of New York State!

🧵 Here's why he's our pick:
January 6, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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Donate to NYCM ❤️‍🩹 Whether big or small, your contribution will support a winning #CareNotCorruption campaign to secure a more caring New York for all!

AND the first 50 to donate $50 or more will receive a sweet Caring Majority scarf!

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Donate to support the Care Not Corruption fight! The first 50 people to donate $50 or more will receive a Care Not Profits scarf! Three people are depicted in the photo wearing a yellow Caring Majority beanie and a navy blue fleece scarf with rounded corners. On one end it says People Over Profits in red and yellow bold letters. On the other end it says Care for all in red and blue, then NY in yellow with a red heart on each side. The first person in the picture is Senator Cordell Cleare, a Black woman smiling, wearing a red winter coat and a yellow New York Caring Majority beanie. She is smiling and holding up the scarf around her neck. Behind her is Caring Majority leader Leyden, a Latina woman wearing sunglasses, in a grey winter coat, with a gloved fist in the air. Finally, Caring Majority leader Dustin, wearing red tinted sunglasses and posing with a serious face. He is a Black man who uses a wheelchair, and is wearing an unzipped winter buffer coat. He is holding a sign that says Gov Hochul! Our home care is not for sale.
December 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
"NY's in a home care crisis, and instead of investing in people, we've been handing billions of Medicaid dollars to private insurance & private equity firms who add NO value to our lives. We foot the bill and our families & friends suffer." #CareNotCorruption

@phara4assembly.bsky.social 🫶
December 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
caringmrising.bsky.social
The NYC #CareNotCorruption launch outside of Governor Kathy Hochul's office was very cold, but a success! It says so much both about the strength of our community and what’s at stake for consumers and workers that ~50 Caring Majority advocates made it out today.
December 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
caringmrising.bsky.social
INTRODUCING: The #CareNotCorruption Campaign

Platform:

⭐️ Pass #FairPayforHomeCare
⭐️ End the PPL Monopoly & Restore Choice to CDPAP
⭐️ Eliminate private insurance middlemen from NY’s home care system
⭐️ Invest in our care & prevent Medicaid cuts by TAXING THE RICH
December 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
ALL OUT: JOIN US TO LAUNCH THE CARE NOT CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN.

Albany — 12/10
NYC & Buffalo — 12/11
Virtual — 12/16

RSVP below ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
NEW YORKERS NEED CARE NOT CORRUPTION. Join the Campaign Launch. With heart-shaped bullet points: Albany – Wednesday, 12/10, NYC & Buffalo – Thursday, 12/11, Virtual – Tuesday, 12/16. A crowd of a large rally with a banner that says “My Homecare is not a game” NEW YORKERS NEED CARE NOT CORRUPTION. It’s time for Governor Hochul to prioritize people over profit! X: Stop handing billions of OUR Medicaid home care dollars to private equity and private insurance crooks. HearT: Support Fair Pay for Home Care. Heart: Restore choice to the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (#SaveCDPAP). Heart: Tax the Rich to invest in our care & prevent Medicaid cuts
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
🧵🔥 Brilliant zinger article by Caring Majority advocates @bobbiesackman.bsky.social, @lizzieknock.bsky.social, and Michael Solow addressing why “Gov Hochul, DOH, & legislators must address this self-created [PPL] crisis now, or thousands of our fellow citizens will continue to needlessly suffer.” ⬇️⬇️
Page 1: Title: Spending More for Less: H one Care in New York State. By Elise Nakhnikian, Michael Solow, and Bobbie Sackman (Nov 3 2025). There are two photos. One of a NYT article with the headline: “Questions Arise Over Hiring of firm to run $11 Billion Health Care Program” and a cut-off photo of Commissioner McDonald. The other is a screenshot from the hearing of the DOH Commissioner MacDonald, and there is a caption of him saying, “I have no…no way to know that.” The beginning of the article says: “A turbulent hearing held by the State Senate in August examined mismanagement of the state’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP). A private equity-backed corporation, PPL, was brought in early this year to run the popular home care program, replacing hundreds of smaller companies.” Page 2. “But the transition to PPL has been plagued by problems. In a recent survey, 55% of CDPAP workers were not fully paid and 20% of consumers had gone without approved services. There are two lawsuits pending over wage theft. At the hearing, Department of Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald said the key reason for changing CDPAP was “lowering administrative costs,” claiming the state would save $500 million a year. Yet when asked about those savings, or his department’s supposed oversight, he could not give any answers.” Photos of home care consumers who use wheelchairs and home care workers holding signs that say, “Save CDPAP NOW!” “250,000 Workers Unpaid,” PPL Doesn’t Pay” “Hochul! Our Lives are on the line” Page 3. When CDPAP began 30 years ago, disabled people designed a program that gave them control over who comes into their home to help with intimate tasks. By allowing relatives to become paid caregivers, CDPAP addressed the growing need for home care while helping solve both the shortage of home care workers and the desire of families to give their disabled loved ones care without going broke. It also cost the state less than the home care agencies – New York’s other option for Medicaid-funded care – by cutting administrative overhead because consumers (or their representatives) could direct their own care.” Below there is a photo with the caption “Defending the hard-won CDPAP program (Caring Majority Rising, Albany, 2025)” The photo is of home care consumers blocking escalators in the capital with their wheelchairs, one with her fist in the air. In the foreground, there is a capital police officer. Page 4. Not surprisingly, CDPAP grew in popularity. But instead of celebrating its success in meeting an essential need, the Governor saw an opportunity to make cuts, citing “waste, fraud and abuse” that barely exists as a justification. Enter PPL, a corporation designed to profit off publicly-funded home care. Is PPL, in fact, saving the state taxpayers money? The early evidence is an emphatic no. PPL’s incompetent handling of the transition has led to roughly 80,000 CDPAP consumers fleeing the program, most to sign up with licensed home care agencies. According to testimony at the hearing, based on the Department of Health’s own numbers, that switch will cost taxpayers $550 million more per year. There’s a photo of a home care worker, pointer finger in the air, standing behind hand-painted cardboard flames with signs that say, “Hochul! CDPAP is in flames.” And “Hochul! This is your fault”
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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🔥WHAT POWER!!!🔥 100+ Caring Majority advocates +
@delgadoforny.bsky.social
discuss the fight to defend care in NY & #SaveCDPAP!

"Caring Majority, thanks for your persistence. That we're handing over CDPAP to private equity is VERY flawed... We must cancel PPL's contract & restore trusted FIs."
October 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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CALL TO ACTION! Complete our August PPL survey to tell us how you've been impacted by the transition to PPL! forms.gle/gmXZyzGZWux1...

Past surveys have allowed us to alert electeds just how bad this transition has been. We hope this survey will play the same role @ the 8/21 Senate CDPAP hearing
Cartoon-style speech bubble. Inside, it says, "Calling All consumers, PAs, and Designated Representatives!" Underneath, it says, "Help us track and bring to light issues New Yorkers are facing with PPL! Fill out our August CDPAP survey!" At the bottom is the Caring Majority Rising Logo.
August 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
Are you a consumer or PA who has been harmed by the transition to PPL?

It's really important that you make your voice heard & submit a written testimony for the State Senate CDPAP hearing! It doesn't need to be long or perfectly written – it just matters that it's personal to you. Instructions ⬇️
CALL TO ACTION! Submit a written testimony for the state senate CDPAP hearing. Instructions in the post below. Two red arrows pointing downwards and the Caring Majority Rising Logo.
July 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Hand in Hand and @caringmrising.bsky.social member Julie Farrar participated in the Capital Crawl. In a recent interview with NPR she described the experience. Read the full interview 👇 www.btpm.org/disabilities...
Voices of Disability Pride: 'Your disability is part of that power' says Julie Farrar
This week on Voices of Disability Pride, we feature disability rights activist Julie Farrar. We discuss the importance of mentorship, confidence and connection in self-advocacy and activism.
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July 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
PPL puts profit over people, and home care consumers and workers pay the price.

It’s time to end this contract. NOW.

Join us for a virtual rally this Weds @1 to demand that Gov. Hochul terminate PPL’s contract & restore the trusted providers that have kept CDPAP going for years.

RSVP below:
Virtual rally: how many more scandals? How many more lives? End PPL’s contract NOW! Newspaper clippings, taped photos of Governor Hochul and Health Commissioner Jim McDonald. Headlines include, “Worker at Hochul’s hand-picked homecare payment firm allegedly siphons off cash meant for participants,” “PPL president resigns amid troubled Medicaid home care transition,” “News 10NBC Investigates: Caregivers face uphill battle getting health insurance through state’s new PPL program,” and “Lawmakers questions leadership swap at company managing CDPAP home care program.”
July 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
Come record video testimony with us! It'll be fun 🙂 (and it's a critical part of our strategy to get out the word about the PPL disaster) #SaveCDPAP

RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/zoom-...
July 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
New York's home care system is in freefall:

🚨PPL's top executives are jumping ship
🚨Their systems are still broken
🚨Workers aren't getting paid
🚨And now PPL employees are stealing from the NYers they're supposed to serve

Gov Hochul: DO YOUR JOB. Terminate the contract and end the chaos.
July 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: PPL employee caught stealing from THOUSANDS of home care workers.

This is Governor Hochul's "solution" to fraud in CDPAP? PPL IS the fraud.

End PPL's contract @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social

NOW.

nypost.com/2025/07/15/u...
Exclusive | Worker at Hochul’s hand-picked homecare payment firm allegedly siphons off cash meant for participants
An employee of Public Partnerships, LLC — the company hand-picked by Hochul’s administration to act as the sole payment go-between for the state and participants in the Consumer Directe…
nypost.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
🧵BREAKING: PPL's President, CEO, and CFO all left the company in recent weeks. That’s not a routine handover - that’s a company in crisis:

www.timesunion.com/state/articl...
NY Lawmakers question CEO swap at company managing CDPAP home care program
The new CEO also operates a private equity firm that shares ownership of the company.
www.timesunion.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
When it comes to home care, there are 2 paths for legislators to take: #SaveCDPAP or #PPLHell

Pass S1189/A2735 & S7954/A8355 before the end of session! 100,000s of disabled, aging, & home care worker NYers are counting on you to do the right thing!

CALL YOUR REPS: actionnetwork.org/forms/call-y...
June 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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NYC! Tomorrow @ 11am we're joining Downstate NY ADAPT to blow the whistle on PPL at their midtown office. Meet up at Starbucks near 1411 Broadway!

If you have a PPL horror story & want to share it tomorrow - please DM us ❤️

RSVP HERE:
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Hey PPL! Hands off Our Care!
Join with Caring Majority Rising, Downstate NY ADAPT and allies to blow the whistle on PPL at a rally outside PPL's Manhattan office! We will meet up at a Starbucks nearby and go to the action locatio...
actionnetwork.org
June 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
Happy Friday!

Angela needs PPL to pay her correctly so she can pay her rent. And you need to call your representatives before the weekend so we can pass the #SaveCDPAP Act!

Linked below is a script and legislator lookup tool — this should take 5 mins tops!

actionnetwork.org/forms/call-y...
May 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
Caring Majority Rising Up! (Music Video WORLD PREMIERE) 🔥🔥🔥 – Caring Majority Team feat. Renee Christian

Please donate to CMR today to fund our advocacy in Albany to pass the #SaveCDPAP Act!

actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
May 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
Carol Gray is providing live-saving care for her son. PPL only paid her $3.77 for weeks of labor.

CALL your state reps to pass the #SaveCDPAP Act to save home care in NY and stop the PPL monopoly!

We've made it easy with this call script and legislator lookup:

actionnetwork.org/forms/call-y...
May 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
“Since April, my husband and I have had to have constant conversations about what’s going to happen if either one of us as disabled people are put into a facility.” —Erica Glick, Consumer

📣 Call your reps at link below to pass the #SaveCDPAP Act!

spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...
May 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
🗞 Last Week with Caring Majority from @lizzieknock.bsky.social

Advocating for the #SaveCDPAP bill, fighting to save Medicaid, and countering smears against us by PPL

nycaringmajority.substack.com/p/last-week-...
Last Week with Caring Majority
Advocating for the #SaveCDPAP bill, fighting to save Medicaid, and countering smears against us by PPL
nycaringmajority.substack.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
caringmrising.bsky.social
It’s PPL's Sixth Pay Day! Were you paid? How will PPL's health insurance policy impact you?

Please let us know! Your story has and will continue to make a difference.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
It’s PPL's Sixth Pay Day! Were you paid?
PPL's sixth pay day was on May 15th. Caring Majority Rising, Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Association of New York State and NY Association on Independent Living are continuing to track who do...
docs.google.com
May 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM