Disability Rights

House Bill 25-1017 codifies a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision for disability rights By: Ryan Fish Posted 12:20 AM, May 29, 2025 DENVER — Molly Kirkham and other Coloradans living with disabilities celebrated inside the State Capitol on Wednesday. A bipartisan bill (House Bill 25-1017) was signed into law last week by Governor Jared Polis, securing the…

Published: May 29, 2025 4:24pm EDT Authors People with disability are missing out on screening programs that could help detect cancer early, and after diagnosis, are less likely to survive, our study shows. Overall, this means people with disability are more likely to die from cancer than people without disability. We draw together evidence showing the…

By: William Skipworth – May 27, 2025 5:00 am  Jim and Pat Piet pose for a photo in their Concord home. The couple said that hiring aides to help Jim with everyday tasks in light of his cerebral palsy is “damn near impossible.” (Photo by William Skipworth/New Hampshire Bulletin) Last time Jim Piet, who has cerebral palsy, needed…

By Alex Zimmerman | May 21, 2025, 3:05pm CDT After trading taunts with a classmate one morning in March 2023, Tristan threw a punch that busted the other student’s lip. A teacher who intervened wound up with a bloody nose and swollen lip in the ensuing scuffle. Then a ninth grader at Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers College Preparatory School,…

By Leo Shane III  Thursday, May 22, 2025 After years of hearing cost complaints from lawmakers, advocates believe they have finally reached a funding solution for their major disability reform plan, providing thousands of dollars a year to 54,000-plus wounded veterans nationwide. Actually, they think the White House found the answer for them. “In March, Veterans Affairs leaders announced contract terminations that…

Federal policy prevents around 50,000 injured veterans from receiving both their full retirement pay and disability compensation. May 26, 2025, 4:37 PM CDT / Updated May 27, 2025, 11:56 AM CDT By Melanie Zanona WASHINGTON — When Army veteran Dan Nevins was forced to medically retire from the military after losing both his legs in combat, he thought he’d…

Jerry Cornfield May 16, 2025 / 10:45 am A new law triggered by a lawsuit will ensure public school students in Washington are offered special education instruction until they are 22 years old. Gov. Bob Ferguson signed legislation this week to extend the length of a student’s eligibility to the end of the school year in which they turn…

Cuts to Medicaid and the Department of Education could have detrimental impacts on keeping kids with complex medical needs healthy — and ensuring those same children have equitable access to education. By: Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th and Nadra Nittle, The 19th – May 8, 2025 2:28 pm Jolene Baxter’s daughter, Marlee, has overcome immense challenges in her first eight years…

BY Marshall Keely PUBLISHED 3:30 PM ET May 15, 2025 RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina General Assembly is in the midst of budget season, and one group of people fear they’re being left out. One North Carolina woman has become an outspoken figure in the fight to get people living with intellectual or developmental disabilities more help.…

After Department of Health and Welfare sought to end program, citing fraud and abuse, federal CMS approves request to end it By: Kyle Pfannenstiel – May 20, 2025 4:30 am A program that lets Idaho parents and spouses serve as paid caregivers is set to end in two months. The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or…