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Student Debt Hits Disabled Borrowers Hard
The July 1 student loan overhaul doesn’t just adjust repayment rules; it deepens the inequities disabled students already live with, and those inequities become even sharper when race and institutional type enter the picture. Disabled borrowers have long been at higher risk of financial instability, and the new policies remove tools that once helped them…
Work Requirements Won’t Cure a Disability
As a person with cerebral palsy, Medicaid is much more than health insurance to me. It’s what allows me to live in my own home, rather than in a nursing home or other facility. It funds the PCA (personal care assistant)hours that I need every day. If I didn’t have it, my independence would be…
Inclusion Is Hollow Without Safety
Maddux Remillet is an 11-year-old who loves swimming, cars, adaptive baseball, and filmmaking. He recently received national PTA recognition for a documentary he produced with a classmate on his life as a student who has a physical disability. He’s bright, curious, and determined. He also has spina bifida and achondroplasia, uses a wheelchair, and has…
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