“Human services workers include child care workers, healthcare workers in community clinics, outreach workers who work with unhoused populations, eldercare workers, youth program workers and people who take care of disabled people, among others. These people, said Janice Deguchi, another co-chair of the SHSC and the executive director of Neighborhood House, in a press release, ‘are often paid at such low levels that they qualify for public assistance themselves.'”
https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2022/07/27/seattle-taps-uw-study-social-worker-pay