Tag: Commentary

"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 ...

Today the U.S. Department of the Interior announced that it is "pausing—effective immediately—the leases for all large-scale offshore wind projects under construction in the United States due to national security risks identified by the Department of War in recently completed ...

“The United States has only 18 mental health beds per 100,000 people, far below what is needed to serve people in need,” write Able Americans‘ Elinore McCance-Katz and Rachel Barkley in a commentary published at The Daily Caller. “For individuals with the most severe mental health conditions, ...

"Wind and solar power require a lot of upfront capital, and investors may be having second thoughts about placing their bets on what looks like a losing horse," writes Dr. Bonner Cohen in a Daily Caller commentary. Bonner provides an ...

We at the National Center for Public Policy Research are all in shock and mourning over the senseless assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Charlie was a larger-than-life figure, a dad to two beautiful children, a faithful husband and a ...

"People with disabilities are not broken. Our systems are," write Neil Romano and Sara Weir Rogers in a commentary posted at "Helen: The Journal of Human Exceptionality." They elaborate: The government doesn’t invest in their future, not because the need ...

"Unless it touches your life, it’s difficult to realize how many people with disabilities are being harmed by the very programs intended to help them," notes National Center for Public Policy Research Chairman David Ridenour. In a commentary published at The ...