New England Public Radio Facing Change: As New England Ages, Immigrants Make Up A Growing Share Of Health Workers Adding all of this together reveals some unsustainable labor trends. Barry Bluestone, a professor of public policy at Northeastern University who’s run some of the jobs numbers, predicts that in Massachusetts, “we’re going to need about 93,000 additional home care workers over the next 10 years, or almost 10,000 a year.”