About 300 home-care aides from around the state are in Olympia today, asking lawmakers for a 50-cent hourly raise per year for the next two years. The state pays for home-care services for about 52,000 of the lowest-income seniors and people with disabilities. Last year, an arbitrator in the workers' contract talks with the state suggested they be paid $11 an hour instead of $10 by July 2015. (contd.)  Podcast and entire story available: http://www.newsservice.org/index.php