My latest at Wonkblog.
Veronica Perrone Pollack and Vincent Perrone, blowing out the birthday candles.
The Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act would allow people with disabilities and their families to establish 529-style accounts for education, transportation, and other expenses. Identical versions are co-sponsored by seventy senators and by 359 members of the House. It’s amazing to see Senators Bernie Sanders, Jay Rockefeller, Mitch McConnell, and James Imhofe co-sponsoring the same bill.
In an era so disfigured by mean-spirited and polarized gridlock politics, this is no little thing. More here.
JamesWimberley says
Disability is worse if you are poor. But it does affect individuals in every centile of the distributions of income and wealth.The most privileged families, and those most isolated in a cognitive bubble like the Beltway, Chelsea or Wall Street, include a disabled person in their social circle. Disability can still tunnel through the barriers to empathy thrown up by class and race, even in the Second Gilded Age.