Category: Able Americans

"For decades, public policy sent a quiet but devastating message to people with disabilities: Stay poor or lose life-saving benefits," writes Able Americans Senior Fellow Sara Hart Weir. Sara notes that more than a decade after the ABLE Act was ...

Part 2 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?” Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. Hitler had alluded to the Jewish Final Solution in Mein Kampf (1924), echoing many of the themes of Binding and Hoche’s 1920 ideas, including that the ...

Many people believe that eugenics is a long-discredited idea that has no part in modern civilized society. This is wildly inaccurate. Eugenics is alive and well in 2026, albeit in different ideological and legal clothing. What began in the late 1800s ...

"For the last 40 years, passengers with disabilities have repeatedly been disappointed in the lack of progress around air travel," writes Able Americans Senior Researcher Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D., in a commentary syndicated through InsideSources. While "the Air Carrier Access ...

Air travel for passengers with disabilities is often fraught with unnecessary and significant challenges. In the commentary below, Able Americans Senior Researcher Mark Mostert takes a closer look at the Airline Carrier Access Act, which was passed in 1986. In ...

“Families move for jobs, for affordability, for safety, for caregiving and for love. People with disabilities deserve that same freedom — without fear of losing the supports that make independent life possible,” writes Rob Taishoff in a commentary published at The ...

Washington rarely delivers sweeping victories for people with disabilities overnight. Progress usually comes the way real reform always does—incrementally, through persistence, and by seizing moments when common sense briefly outweighs dysfunction. That’s why the House minibus package deserves attention. Tucked ...

For too long, our public policy has sent a quiet but devastating message to people with disabilities: Don’t save. Don’t plan. Don’t earn too much — or you’ll lose what you need to survive. ABLE Accounts began to change that ...

This holiday season, I am closing out the year with hope—not the passive kind, but real hope. I was recently reminded by former Oklahoma DHS Secretary Justin Brown that real hope is powerful. Real hope is the belief that tomorrow ...

While the left whines about recent Medicaid reforms, Able Americans Director Rachel Barkley is confident that people with disabilities will benefit from the changes. In a recent Fox News story, Rachel outlined the provisions she is excited about: Rachel Barkley, ...