Disabled People Are the Canaries in the Coal Mine
The disabled community has responded to the adversities they face by organizing for legal rights that protect their autonomy and access to public life. But these rights are increasingly under attack.
A piece in last Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal reiterates the point Roger Bybee made in our May/June issue (“Corporate America’s Counter-Stimulus Strategy”): Companies are shuttering profitable plants and putting workers out on the street despite viable buy-out offers in order to raise the price of a product they are still producing elsewhere by reducing capacity.
Read the whole piece here.