Whether it’s declaring that blindness prevents government employees from doing their jobs or suggesting that hiring workers with intellectual disabilities contributed to Federal Aviation ...

In 2025, the UN released its sixth progress report, reflecting on how far the system has come and where acceleration is needed. Every year on December 3rd, the world marks the International Day of ...

Participants in the Jubilee of People with Disabilities share testimonies and prayers in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on April 29, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Pablo Esparza As a disabled theologian, ...

A clipping from the Chicago Sun Times on Wednesday, September 17, 2003 shows one of the many actions taken by disabled people across the US to advocate for independent living in the decades since the ...

In a world increasingly focused on diversity and inclusion, people with disabilities continue to be sorely underrepresented. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 1.3 billion people ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. According to the CDC, more than 74 million Americans—more than 1 in 4 adults—live with some type of disability. Most banks treat ...

New York’s Family Care program, which gives people with disabilities the choice to live with a family instead of in group ...

A charity supporting disabled children and young people is set to relocate as demand for its services has become so high that ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Over the past week and a half rogue corrections officer walkouts have put prisons across the state into a panic. The officers say they want the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement ...

Big cheers to National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) for winning DEI Visionary & Inclusion ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 1924, 17-year-old Carrie Buck was institutionalized, having been deemed ...