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The World I Entered Too Soon
CW: Premature Birth November is Prematurity Awareness Month. Every year, more than 10% of all babies born around the world are born prematurely, before 37 weeks. Birth weight was the primary indicator of prematurity until the 1990s. However, over the past few decades, gestational age has been identified as the main predictor of the physical…
Disability and the Unfinished Homecoming
CW: Military Service, Suicide, PTSD, Cancer & Death Every Veterans Day, we honor the people who have served. Flags line the streets, parades are held, and veterans hear well-deserved words of gratitude. It is a day for saying thank you, but also for listening more closely to what veterans may carry with them long after…
The Real Measure of a Nation
There are ways to measure a country’s progress that rarely show up in economic projections. Sometimes the more revealing measure is quieter: what happens to people who need support when money becomes tight. Disability policy can become strangely impersonal, reduced to budgets, debts, and arguments over what a government can afford. That question followed Pope…
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