#trumpresults: You should be freaking out if you're thinking of putting a loved one in a nursing home

 

Headline:  Wisconsin State Journal, 7/19/2025

Matt Sedensky reports for the Associated Press:

Nursing homes already struggling to recruit staff are now grappling with President Donald Trump’s attack on one of their few reliable sources of workers: immigration.  

Facilities for older adults and disabled people are reporting the sporadic loss of employees who have had their legal status revoked by Trump. But they fear even more dramatic impacts are ahead as pipelines of potential workers slow to a trickle with an overall downturn in legal immigration.

According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'nursing home' occurred in 1880.

Other coinages from the same year include:

1. anti-vaccine
2. belly up
3. coresident
4. death tax
5. faith healing
6. milk of magnesia
7. xenophobia

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