by Paulette Southerly | Jan 8, 2018 | Advocacy, Disability, Public Awareness
At a moment of reckoning in the United States about sexual harassment and sexual assault, a yearlong NPR investigation finds that there’s little recognition of a group of Americans that is one of the most at risk: adults with intellectual disabilities. The...
by Paulette Southerly | Dec 1, 2017 | Advocacy, Disability, Public Awareness
“On this World AIDS Day we are here to remind you that ‘Everybody Counts’! Everybody counts if we are to achieve universal health coverage and everybody must count if we are to eliminate AIDS and viral hepatitis as public health threats. Health...
by Paulette Southerly | Nov 28, 2017 | Advocacy, Disability, Public Awareness
Stop the #TaxOnDisability The individual mandate, tax credits, and medical deductions make the lives of disabled Americans easier. The GOP wants to end them. If the GOP Senate manages to eliminate the individual mandate provisions of the Affordable Care Act insurance...
by NWVCIL | Sep 18, 2017 | Advocacy, Disability, Outreach, Public Awareness
Graham-Cassidy Healthcare Bill Introduced From http://www.advocacymonitor.com/ This Wednesday, Senators Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson (GCHJ) proposal (PDF), the Republicans’ last-ditch effort to repeal and...
by NWVCIL | Sep 13, 2017 | Advocacy, Disability, Outreach, Public Awareness
by NWVCIL | Sep 11, 2017 | Advocacy, Disability, Outreach, Public Awareness
On Thursday, September 7, 2017, the House Judiciary Committee held a markup of H.R. 620, the ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017. The bill was voted out of committee along party lines and will now go to the full House for a vote. All of the amendments proposed by...
