New York, NY—Human service providers would be able to pay their workers more money based on a new bill introduced today in the City Council by Councilman Ben Kallos.

Earlier today he was distributing face masks and hand sanitizer in Yorkville outside the Isaacs Center, a 50-year human services provider whose mission is to ensure that children are prepared to thrive in high school, young adults boost their earnings, and that seniors thrive as they age.

But the human services sector, which employs approximately 200,000 New Yorkers, pays low wages. According to a report published by a coalition of human services providers, the average pay is less than $30,000 annually.