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Minimum wage and overtime protections extended this week to cover home care workers in the United States

Under the new rule, any home care aides hired different third party employers cannot be exempt from minimum wage and overtime coverage.
U.S. to include Home Care Aides in Wage and Overtime Law
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/business/us-to-include-home-care-workers-in-wage-and-overtime-law.html?_r=0
The White House is giving 2 million health-care workers a raise http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/17/the-white-house-is-giving-2-million-health-care-workers-a-raise/
Minimum Wage Extended to Health Care Workers
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/rules-boost-pay-home-health-care-workers-20282093
United States Department of Labor: Press Release
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/whd/WHD20131922.htm
CDC: Health Care Workers
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/healthcare/
National Association for Home Care & Hospice
http://www.nahc.org/
On Tuesday, the United States government announced that home care workers will be eligible for overtime pay and minimum wage beginning in 2015. This is considered a major step forward, as previously such employees were classified into the same “companionship services” category as baby sitters. Their work is substantially and qualitatively different than the work of baby sitters and the decision was applauded by a number of advocacy groups.

Twitter posts inaccurately high metrics about its ads, changes them after questions

THEY LIED and got called out for it.
The blog posted bad metrics Wednesday, then posted new metrics after those numbers were questioned, then explained the changes today.
Twitter claimed that an advertiser received 25 times the number of tweets it actually received and it inflated another metric by 680 million until the San Francisco Chronicle double checked the company’s figures. Jeff Elder at the “The Tech Chronicles” on SFGate.com reported: Twitter posts inaccurately high metrics about its ads, changes them after questions.
It’s not clear what caused the changes from the earlier inaccurately high figures, only that the figures changed after SFGate asked about London Fashion Week metrics. A Topsy rep said she didn’t know if the company discussed the figures with Twitter after questions from SFGate.
A Twitter rep said the company is looking into it.
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Jeff Elder is the social media lead for SFGate and The San Francisco Chronicle. Connect with him on Twitter here: @jeffelder.