On December 3, the Department of Labor issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that, if finalized, would eliminate 14(c), a provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act that allows some employers—mostly ...

The contention is over a federal law that creates a special minimum wage for disabled workers in extreme circumstances. Most of these workers, who generally could not perform in an ordinary workplace, ...

Colleen Lutkevich and Kim Meehan sit on a bench at the Wrentham Developmental Center, which houses residents that are severely developmentally disabled — including Lutkevich's sister. Meehan's sister ...

Disability-rights advocates have long insisted that, as a matter of public policy, disabled people’s lives should resemble those of nondisabled people to the greatest extent possible. They have argued ...

"William is the most courageous and inspirational person I've met," Fred Trump III tells PEOPLE of his son, after recently alleging that Donald said severely disabled people "should just die" Kyler ...

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I spent a couple of years at the Department of Social and Health Services processing severely disabled adults off Washington state cash, medical and institutional care onto the new Supplemental ...

Disability rights activists swiftly condemned President Donald Trump’s remarks on Thursday in which he blamed diversity, ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A Lithonia woman has been convicted of exploiting disabled adults and depriving them of essential services. Crystal Nasir, 43, was found guilty in connection with the operation of ...

Keir Starmer is pushing ahead with welfare cuts that could leave over 600,000 severely disabled people up to £675 a month worse off. Despite backlash, the government plans to tighten eligibility for ...

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