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Recent Medicaid Reforms Will Benefit People With Disabilities
Able Americans Director Rachel Barkley is confident that people with disabilities will benefit from recent Medicaid reforms implemented under the One Big Beautiful Bill. Rachel ...
Elinore McCance-Katz and Rachel Barkley: America Urgently Needs Options To Care For Mentally Ill Neighbors
“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‘ ...
We Can Support Special Education Without the Department of Education
Rachel Barkley Able Americans Director Rachel Barkley was interviewed by The 19th about the Trump administration’s decision to lay off most employees within the U.S. Department of Education’s special education ...
Jesi’s Story: Don’t Penalize Americans With Disabilities for Working and Saving
“My boyfriend and I have talked about marriage a few times, and we’re not going to do it because I would lose my Medicaid, and ...
Kansas Is Leading the Way on Financial Empowerment for Foster Youth with Disabilities — Other States Should Follow
Each year, thousands of young Americans with disabilities age out of foster care and step into adulthood with little more than determination. Too often, they ...
DOJ’s Uber Lawsuit Triggers Questions from Disability Activists and Shareholder Activists
Washington, D.C. – Policy leaders with the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Able Americans program and Free Enterprise Project (FEP) have delivered a letter to the board of Uber Technologies, Inc. seeking answers ...
From Waitlists to Workforce: How People With Disabilities Can Benefit From the One Big Beautiful Bill
Leveraging the HCBS Act and Rural Health Transformation Fund for People with Disabilities Through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act The recent passage of the ...
Repeating the Mistakes of the Past is No Way to Reshape Modern Disability Policy
“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.” ...
David Ridenour: A Lifelong Battle: Parents Demand Dignified Care for Children with Disabilities
“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,” ...
Able Americans Champions Concrete Reforms for Those Living with Disabilities or Mental Illness
Washington, D.C. – Able Americans has released two important new reports aimed at improving the lives of Americans living with disabilities or mental illness. In “ABLE Accounts ...
