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Did you know it’s legal for companies to pay people with disabilities pennies on the dollar for doing the same job as a worker without a disability? It’s a discriminatory practice – and I’m working to eliminate it. https://t.co/KiFnq7OIS3 — Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) May 1, 2018 It’s been exciting to see major senators, especially in …
Yesterday the Sanders campaign released a statement on New York’s new 15$ minimum wage law. So much credit goes to the fight-for-15 folks who have the seemingly impossible into a new norm in progressive states around the country. On disability, Sanders wrote [my emphasis] “I’m proud that today two of our largest states will be …
A few months ago I wrote about Clinton’s policy on helping people with Autism and their families. More recently, I wrote about disability entering the political frame of “interest groups.” Yesterday (Monday, 3/28), I was alerted by Ari Ne’eman of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network that Clinton was asked by an autistic adult about subminimum …