This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Disability is often incorrectly assumed to be rare. However, global estimates suggest than one in seven adults has some form of disability. The ...

Romania registers one of the highest shares in Europe of people aged over 16 with disabilities who are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, according to Eurostat data processed by Monitorul Social, ...

Disabling chronic health conditions are more prevalent and have risen at a faster rate in black children than in whites nationwide, a disparity largely explained by poverty, a study suggests. The ...

Even after the federal Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect, two decades later, people with disabilities still face many problems. Our nation has made progress in ensuring that places are ...

The experience of disabled people in the United States is significantly shaped by health and social policy and policy administration, which are all too often designed by non-disabled people situated ...

Appeal filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana claims that the St. Tammany Parish School Board ...

I moved to Utah in 2024 with my daughter to save her life through the Intermountain Liver Transplant Program. Her surgery was successful, but now we face eviction and possible homelessness. We spent ...

The layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services slashed the staffs of major federal aging, disability and anti-poverty programs, leaving the future of those programs uncertain. At least 40% ...

A data visualization tool that shows the impact of the opioid epidemic and its relation to poverty, education, employment and disability was released Tuesday. It helps to illustrate the areas of the ...

By Francis Ntow Accra, Jan. 26, GNA – Persons with disabilities remain disproportionately affected by multidimensional poverty despite national progress in reducing deprivation, the Ghana Statistical ...

Prominent anti-poverty and disability charities, including the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Disability Rights UK, have ...