Disability Rights
Coloradans with disabilities use special equipment to vote without assistance this election
About 40% of eligible voters in ...
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What Disabled Voters Need to Know to Cast Their Ballot in 2024
By Fran Kritz Published on October 26, ...
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How socks are spreading joy and empowering people with disabilities
John Cronin has built a multimillion-dollar ...
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Student with special needs finds acceptance and brotherhood in Clemson fraternity
By Steve Hartman October 25, 2024 / ...
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American Airlines fined $50M for violating disability laws
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the airline ...
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Inside the world’s first TV station run for and by people with learning disabilities
William Kremer Reporter Emily Ann Riedel ...
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Parents claim discrimination against disabled students at Denton ISD
By Erin Jones Updated on: October 17, ...
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Hundreds from NJ disability community rally in Trenton against GOP Medicaid cuts
Gene Myers March 6, 2025 Every morning, Kevin Nunez begins his day with the help of a personal aide — an assistant funded by Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program that…
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US Education Department to investigate DC schools’ treatment of disabled students
The announcement of the DCPS investigation comes as President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order as early as Thursday to shut down the entire Education Department By Andrea…
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Supreme Court sides against veterans wanting stronger benefit of the doubt review in disability claims
Advocacy groups argue veterans have, for more than a century, been entitled to the benefit of the doubt for service-connect disability payments. Maureen Groppe March 5, 2025 WASHINGTON − The Supreme…
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Advocates Rally Against Removal of Disability Rights at Capitol
Texas v. Becerra would remove rights under Section 504 By Lucciana Choueiry, 4:40PM, Wed. Mar. 5, 2025 On Tuesday, a coalition of disability rights activists gathered outside the Texas State Capitol, braving the…
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Maryland disability advocates speak out against proposed $200 million service cut
By Tara Lynch Updated on: March 3, 2025 / 11:30 PM EST To watch video report, Click Here. With April and the state’s budget deadline looming, Maryland disability advocates went door…
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Wicked’s Jenna Bainbridge on Reframing Nessarose’s ‘Tragic’ Disability
By Esme Mazzeo Twenty-one years in, she’s the first disabled actor to play Elphaba’s sister, who uses a wheelchair, on Broadway. In the second act of Wicked at the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway,…
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With budget shortfall, Idaho disability job aid agency faces scrutiny from federal, state government
Feb 24, 2025 | 4:25 pm ET By Kyle Pfannenstiel An Idaho government agency that helps people with disabilities with employment is continuing to face scrutiny — from auditors and state…
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These little-known bank accounts allow Americans with disabilities to save and invest
By CORA LEWIS Updated 4:01 AM CST, February 24, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Safarik, 32, of Lincoln, Nebraska, has worked in the food industry since he was 21, delivering…
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Disability amid disaster: People with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by natural disasters
After disasters, people with disabilities are more likely to be displaced, more likely to never return home and more likely to receive scam offers, Census Bureau data shows. Feb. 23,…
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Colorado bill protecting disabled people from institutionalization advances
By Olivia Young February 20, 2025 / 7:49 PM MST / CBS Colorado Protection from institutionalization for disabled people is a right that has been federally guaranteed since a 1999 Supreme Court…
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