Tag: Able Americans
Don’t Make People Start Over to Move Forward
For Americans with disabilities, a new job, training opportunity or better future shouldn’t disappear simply because they cross a state line. Yet that can happen under today’s fragmented Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) system. A person who has worked with VR to ...
How The Digital Revolution Is Reclaiming The Household Economy
"For a long time, earning a living usually meant leaving home. Digital technology, and the AI now layered on top of it, means fewer families have to accept that separation as the price of economic participation," write Able Americans Director Rachel ...
David Ridenour: Medicaid’s Asset Limit Punishes the People It’s Supposed to Help
"In most states, people with disabilities and older adults can lose Medicaid eligibility if they save $2,000," writes National Center for Public Policy Research Chairman David Ridenour. "The rule doesn’t just fail the people it was designed to help. It ...
Former Congressman Molinaro: It’s Time to Think Differently—and Fix America’s Disability System
We are delighted to welcome former Congressman Marc Molinaro to Able Americans’ Campaign to Fix the Disability System. In the commentary below, Rep. Molinaro explains why he's joined our efforts. For millions of Americans with disabilities and their families, the ...
Mark Mostert: Ghouls Are Cheering NY’s New Suicide Law, but Look What Happened in the Netherlands
While New Yorkers enthusiastically embrace a new Medical Aid in Dying law, we’re seeing the catastrophic results of such laws on the other side of the Atlantic. In a commentary published at the New York Post, Able Americans Senior Fellow Mark Mostert, Ph.D. observes: ...
Rachel Barkley: Moving Special Ed Programs to HHS Removes Siloes in the Disability System
"The decision to move the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) to the Department of Health and Human Services deserves an open mind—not immediate opposition," writes Able Americans Director Rachel Barkley in a commentary ...
No One Is Safe From the Pro-Death Agenda
Postscript to the 11-Part Series "Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?" As we have seen, the seeds of assisted suicide and euthanasia were sown decades ago. However, the pro-death movement can no longer hide behind altruism and good faith. It ...
Collette Divitto: I Am One of Many With Down Syndrome. Start Listening to Us for a Change.
"Why are so many Americans still being told that disability means a life without opportunity?" In a commentary published at The Hill, Collette Divitto — a woman with Down syndrome who also serves as the founder and CEO of Collettey’s ...
Canada: A Society Gone Mad for Medicalized Killing
Part 11 in the 11-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. While the Netherlands and other European countries have descended slowly into the complete acceptance of medicalized killing, the slippery slope has become way steeper in Canada ...
New Poll of Likely Voters Reveals Surprising Areas of Agreement on Disability Policy
Disability issues rarely command sustained attention in Washington, but a new poll suggests that voters across the political spectrum share more common ground on these issues than many policymakers may realize. To better understand public attitudes toward disability policy, Able ...
