People with disabilities are four times more likely to be victims of violent crime. Federal funding to bring their abusers to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Only some 40 percent of disabled people are employed. But even that low figure is ...

Project 2025 could pose significant risks to the disabled community during a hypothetical second term for former President Donald Trump, according to activists, lawyers and lawmakers. In a statement ...

After years of complaints about poor care and mismanagement, group homes for New Jerseyans with developmental disabilities could face a bevy of new regulations under legislation introduced in Trenton ...

Disability Rights New York is investigating a private residential school where students allegedly subjected to physical abuse and inhuman living conditions Disability Rights New York filed a lawsuit ...

In his latest annual report, New Jersey's disability ombudsman said neglect, abuse and unsafe conditions persist at group homes. Paul Aronsohn's report describes a bureaucracy that often treats ...

From 2017 through 2023, roughly 2,680 people with developmental disabilities died under the care of the state of Missouri — on average, one person every day. This story was commissioned by the River ...

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Alice Wong, the trailblazing disability rights advocate and author, died Nov. 14 at a hospital in San Francisco. She was 51. Wong, the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, died of an ...