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.
Author: Harold Pollack
Harold Pollack is Helen Ross Professor of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. He has served on three expert committees of the National Academies of Science. His recent research appears in such journals as Addiction, Journal of the American Medical Association, and American Journal of Public Health. He writes regularly on HIV prevention, crime and drug policy, health reform, and disability policy for American Prospect, tnr.com, and other news outlets. His essay, "Lessons from an Emergency Room Nightmare" was selected for the collection The Best American Medical Writing, 2009. He recently participated, with zero critical acclaim, in the University of Chicago's annual Latke-Hamentaschen debate.
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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.
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.