Having a mental health issue interfere with your personal life is hard enough. But having it affect your working life can be even more difficult. For one thing, there’s dealing with your mental health ...
Dices with letters on that spell Inclusion and Exclusion. Discrimination of people with disabilities is a protracted tale – but this should be a motivator or an opportunity to be accountable and take ...
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 ...
In A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, Independent School District No. 279, the Supreme Court considered the obligation of schools to refrain from discriminating on the basis of a disability. Specifically, ...
The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights is investigating a former student’s allegations of discrimination and retaliation by Brown University on the basis of their disability status, ...
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, our laws did not provide any recourse against the discrimination she faced. In the decades that followed, ...
Q: Last winter I underwent triple by-pass surgery to fix clogged arteries in my heart. I was off work (without pay) for almost seven weeks. Before the surgery, I was feeling lousy; I had no energy and ...
MOUNT PLEASANT, Wisc. (KNWA/KFTA) — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has accused Walmart of disability discrimination in a lawsuit filed last month in Wisconsin. The EEOC said in a ...
Kelsey Chapman receives research funding from the Queensland Government. She is a member of the Metro South Health Disability Community Advisory Committee and Health Translation Queensland. Elizabeth ...