He had made it through four years of denials and appeals, and Robert Heard was finally before a Social Security judge who would decide whether he qualified for disability benefits. Two debilitating ...

Before the Americans with Disabilities Act, the country was a very different place for people with disabilities, who had to navigate hurdles such as inaccessible public buildings. Yet when it comes to ...

Trump administration officials informed the co-founder of a nonprofit disability advocacy group that a proposed rule — which ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Terrence Mccoy, The Washington Post BEAVERTON, Ala. – The lobby at the pain-management clinic had become crowded with patients, so relatives had gone ...

“It’s the greatest professional disappointment of my career,” Bruce Growick told me recently without a trace of doubt in his voice. The former president of the International Association of ...

One of Russell Vought’s top regulatory policies upon taking the helm at OMB this year was, according to a former Trump ...

An independent federal agency says it’s time for a decades-old government jobs program for people with disabilities to come to an end. The National Council on Disability, which is charged with ...

A charity says it is more difficult now to find paid employment than it was 15 years ago. Nick Lancaster, 45 from Brecon, Powys is blind and said he struggled for 20 years to find a job. Holly Greader ...

Just 19% of people with disabilities are employed, versus about 64% of others. The founder of Bitty & Beau's Coffee believes if her workers are seen, stereotypes will shatter. She wants a global ...

At a time of record high youth unemployment, the rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) may seem a blessing: it will require about 70,000 full-time equivalent workers over the next ...

With an increasing intensity and severity of heat waves in the U.S., Rutgers Health researchers, in collaboration with the ...

Australian of the Year and tennis champion Dylan Alcott has called on employers to hire more people with disabilities in a passionate speech at the Jobs and Skills Summit. The Government's Jobs and ...