Subjects Archives: Disability

Just as slavery did not end because plantation owners suddenly developed a conscience, today’s ruling class will fight tooth and nail against making concessions to workers and the oppressed until they are forced to, from below.

Forty-six percent of U.S. adults–regardless of insurance type–reported struggling to afford healthcare last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research think tank.

A new rule change will allow the government to count having a place to sleep as income, and deduct it from SSI payments.

Health professionals and researchers working at the intersection of environment and health often bemoan the relative paucity of health considerations in climate policy, with health only recently (since 2023) starting to become more integrated into the formal UN climate negotiations.

Over one billion people suffer from mental disorders, mostly in the poorer nations, yet mental healthcare remains heavily unprioritised and underfunded.

The Covid pandemic’s onset prompted speculation that the disease had been created in a lab in China, specifically as a weapon against the United States. This new and highly contagious virus did wreak profound socioeconomic trauma and widespread suffering, borne disproportionately by the disadvantaged. Initially it caused nearly 1.2 million deaths in the United States. […]

Israel last year passed a law that banned UNRWA from operating in the country.

The squatter and RFK Jr. have it all figured out—except for the figured out part.

The squatter in the White House is laying siege to the Education Department’s civil rights division.

For those who knew him, GN Saibaba was a staunch human rights activist, a beloved professor and comrade, and a doting husband. He breathed his last on October 12.

Our economy and society are heavily dependent on unpaid care work, disproportionately performed by women.

There are more than 100 response teams nationwide, but experts say more research on their impact is needed.

It is time to position ourselves at the pivotal intersection where the celebration of neurodiversity meets the call for social justice.

CounterSpin interview with Rebecca Vallas on disability economics.

Our immediate crisis is caused by a system that encourages endless growth, exploitation, waste and energy use.

Renowned revolutionary leader and health worker Mutulu Shakur has spent over three decades in prison. As his cancer worsens, activists are demanding his release.

Language matters, and in the case of people with disabilities, it matters a lot. Ableism, exclusion, and misconceptions are held up by a foundation of words that are still abundant in U.S. society.

The COVID-19 pandemic shone a spotlight on the horrific conditions in long-term care facilities. The institutions are a perfect storm for outbreaks: poor ventilation, understaffing, insufficient personal protective equipment (PPE), a lack of regulation, and years of underfunding.

What is at stake is both a courageous man’s life and, if we remain silent, the conquest of our intellects and sense of right and wrong: indeed our very humanity.

There is a fast increasing trend in cattle breeding towards sex semen technology which will result in birth of only female calves. 90 per cent success in ensuring success (in terms of having only female calves) is claimed by promoters of this technology.