Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Only some 40 percent of disabled people are employed. But even that low figure is ...

BOTTOM LINE: Where an administrative law judge sufficiently assessed an applicant’s capacity to work when it denied her application for disability benefits, that decision was affirmed. CASE: Drumgold ...

Kelsey Chapman receives research funding from the Queensland Government. She is a member of the Metro South Health Disability Community Advisory Committee and Health Translation Queensland. Elizabeth ...

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Complaints of disability discrimination in the nation’s schools are at their highest level in six years, the U.S. Department of Education says. A newly released annual report shows that the agency’s ...

People with intellectual and developmental disabilities often face difficulty accessing needed organ transplants, but now a bill is moving through Congress that aims to address that disparity. The U.S ...

New York-based Achilles International, a nonprofit that helps connect people with disabilities to athletic opportunities, is being sued in a district court by a former employee for disability ...

A new rule prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability has been finalized by the Department of Health and Human Services, through its Office of Civil Rights, and seeks to advance equity and ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

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