The Obama administration makes good on its promise to give direct care workers the same rights as nearly everyone else—and to top it all off, California follows suit. Jerry Brown signed the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights into law, the culmination of a seven-year campaign to grant domestic workers overtime pay. Ai-jen Poo, executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, responded on Twitter:Cannot stop crying tears of joy & pride. Moreover, the Alliance reported earlier this year that 25 percent of California’s domestic workers are paid below the state minimum wage. The new federal protections for home care workers will kick in in January of 2015.