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The Everyday Freedom Olmstead Protects
CW: Medical Care & Institutional Bias Nicholas Papadopoulos spent 10 years in a nursing home in Georgia. He has cerebral palsy. He was living on his own before he developed cellulitis. What was supposed to be a short stay turned into a decade in the facility. He left earlier this year. His newfound sense of…
A Bigger Social Security Check Won’t Change The High Cost Of Disability
CW: Poverty Social Security benefits are projected to increase next year. Current estimates indicate that people who receive Social Security may see their benefits increase by around 2.8%. For Americans who live on a fixed income, any increase is a good thing. But for many disabled people this news brings up a question: what happens…
A Child Lost, and a Community Searching for Answers
CW: Elopement, Drowning, & Death When three-year-old Noah Woods disappeared from a playground in Suffolk, England, thousands of people joined the search. Noah, who was autistic, non-verbal, and partially deaf, had become separated from a relative. A day later, the search ended in tragedy when the boy was found deceased. For most people, the story…
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