By Zoe Beery — 2020
For some of the 61 million Americans with disabilities, the ability to work, learn and socialize from home has been an unexpected expansion of possibility.
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Millions of young people grew up knowing the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act as a birthright. They now demand its guarantees — and even more.
Businesses should make an extra effort to connect with workers with disabilities, a ready, capable, and sizable workforce 20 million people strong.
An 80-year-old law makes it legal to pay people with disabilities less than minimum wage.
“If you’re trying to get home and the bus keeps passing you up because you’re in a wheelchair, you have to scream out.”
Technology isn’t always the answer.
Inclusion of people with disabilities into everyday activities involves practices and policies designed to identify and remove barriers such as physical, communication, and attitudinal, that hamper individuals’ ability to have full participation in society, the same as people without disabilities.
Netflix and the BBC will work together, in an unprecedented move, to promote disabled creatives on and off screen.
She believed we have obligations to attend to our fellow humans. How could that spirit change our politics?
In this 1943 essay, written during the last year of her life, which she spent working with Gen. de Gaulle in the struggle for French liberation, Weil makes the case for the existence of a transcendent and universal moral law, and describes the social responsibilities that accompany it.
With the #MeToo movement and the many, often painful episodes of racial friction, we are reaching a new public consciousness and consensus around the need to understand each other’s perspectives.