Impressive panel for the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative launch today. Lisa McCorkell of Patient-Led Research Collaborative of the #LongCovid community. Activists/advocates Vilissa Thompson See Mia Roll to Threads & more! #DisabilityEconomicJustice
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Hey #DisabilityTwitter … anyone know any #DisabilityRights journalists who would be interested in a pretty 🦆‘ed up story about #DisabilityEconomicJustice or #chronicillness / invisible illness/ #type1diabetes discrimination within Social Security??? Hit me up, I’ve got a DOOZY
This is wrong. Puerto Rican people are Americans. Disabled Boricuas deserve access to SSI - a life saving benefit.
Also, Justice Sotomayor continues to be the best. #DisabilityEconomicJustice
24 percent of disabled homeowners had either deferred payment on or had little to no confidence in their ability to make their next mortgage payment—more than twice the share of nondisabled homeowners. #DisabilityEconomicJustice
I’m excited to join the amazing lineup for this event with The Century Foundation Ford Foundation: Julián Castro, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Sarita Gupta, Rebecca Cokley, TCF’s #DisabilityEconomicJustice team, Rebecca Vallas ✨, @kiknack, Vilissa Thompson, and more. RSVP now: DEJC.eventbrite.com.
So proud that CLASP is joining the #DisabilityEconomicJustice Collaborative today! Disability Economic Justice Collaborative
We cannot promote economic justice without advocating for disability justice. Too often, people with disabilities are left behind from these policy conversations.
In February 2022, the labor force participation rate for disabled workers was 36.6 percent compared to 76.9 percent for workers without disabilities. #DisabilityEconomicJustice
Disability Economic Justice Collaborative is long overdue Sarita Gupta sez in convo w Mark Zuckerman & Rebecca Vallas ✨ #DisabilityEconomicJustice ⚖️🍴Food Research & Action Center MD Hunger Solutions DC Hunger Solutions California Association of Food Banks Jennifer - Trust Black Women - Ng'andu Crystal Swann, M.S.(she/her)
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Join The Century Foundation Disability Economic Justice Collaborative + friends for an #SSIat50 tweetstorm to mark SSI's 50th anniversary and uplift the need to #UpdateSSI 's asset limits and more! #DemolishDisabledPoverty #DisabilityEconomicJustice
Our NEW REPORT found disabled workers are paid only 74 cents for every dollar that nondisabled workers take home, an alarming wage gap that contributes to the high numbers of Americans with disabilities living in poverty. #DisabilityEconomicJustice bit.ly/3uYT4Jg
People with disabilities are 3 to 4 times more likely to be incarcerated than nodisabled people, Nancy Smith w/ Activating Change #DisabilityEconomicJustice
Terrific #DisabilityEconomicJustice convo Rebecca Cokley having w Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Julián Castro & Rebecca Vallas ✨ ⚖️ Food Research & Action Center DC Hunger Solutions MD Hunger Solutions
