Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Only some 40 percent of disabled people are employed. But even that low figure is ...

A new rule prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability has been finalized by the Department of Health and Human Services, through its Office of Civil Rights, and seeks to advance equity and ...

Complaints of disability discrimination in the nation’s schools are at their highest level in six years, the U.S. Department of Education says. A newly released annual report shows that the agency’s ...

Monday’s argument in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools is the latest in a long series of Supreme Court cases involving the statutory rights Congress has granted to schoolchildren with disabilities. Two ...

David Roy does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously sided with a Minnesota family that has been battling their local school district over the education of their daughter in a decision that could make it easier ...

Kelsey Chapman receives research funding from the Queensland Government. She is a member of the Metro South Health Disability Community Advisory Committee and Health Translation Queensland. Elizabeth ...

Disability is human. It is quite common. Yet it also makes many of us uncomfortable. You might be looking forward to meeting a new colleague. And then you notice a visible disability, and somehow ...

In a tangled decision, the justices ruled against a disabled firefighter who sued her former employer for refusing her health benefits after she had retired. By Abbie VanSickle and Adam Liptak ...

Learn details about a disability discrimination case against the federal agency that operates a Native American boarding school in Salem. The complaint was filed in 2021 by a special ed teacher with ...

British workers who are sensitive to rejection can sue for disability discrimination, according to a new tribunal judgment. Employees in the UK can sue for discrimination under employment law if they ...