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People with disabilities face enormous barriers in the United States today--from a pandemic that is killing disabled people, especially those in institutions, at staggering rates; to schools that too often fail, traumatize, and criminalize students with disabilities; to a criminal legal system that unnecessarily targets, incarcerates, and kills Black and Brown people with mental disabilities. The administration must make disability rights a priority from day one, with a commitment to addressing head-on these harms and the intersection of discrimination and marginalization around disability, race, and poverty.
Here are just a few of the many items that should top the Biden-Harris administration's to-do list:
Ensure that people with disabilities can live in their communities, not in institutions, and support the direct care workforce:
Stop law enforcement's disproportionate targeting of people with mental health disabilities, and the entrapment of people with disabilities in the criminal legal system:
Ensure that students with disabilities have access to effective and safe education:
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People with disabilities face enormous barriers in the United States today--from a pandemic that is killing disabled people, especially those in institutions, at staggering rates; to schools that too often fail, traumatize, and criminalize students with disabilities; to a criminal legal system that unnecessarily targets, incarcerates, and kills Black and Brown people with mental disabilities. The administration must make disability rights a priority from day one, with a commitment to addressing head-on these harms and the intersection of discrimination and marginalization around disability, race, and poverty.
Here are just a few of the many items that should top the Biden-Harris administration's to-do list:
Ensure that people with disabilities can live in their communities, not in institutions, and support the direct care workforce:
Stop law enforcement's disproportionate targeting of people with mental health disabilities, and the entrapment of people with disabilities in the criminal legal system:
Ensure that students with disabilities have access to effective and safe education:
People with disabilities face enormous barriers in the United States today--from a pandemic that is killing disabled people, especially those in institutions, at staggering rates; to schools that too often fail, traumatize, and criminalize students with disabilities; to a criminal legal system that unnecessarily targets, incarcerates, and kills Black and Brown people with mental disabilities. The administration must make disability rights a priority from day one, with a commitment to addressing head-on these harms and the intersection of discrimination and marginalization around disability, race, and poverty.
Here are just a few of the many items that should top the Biden-Harris administration's to-do list:
Ensure that people with disabilities can live in their communities, not in institutions, and support the direct care workforce:
Stop law enforcement's disproportionate targeting of people with mental health disabilities, and the entrapment of people with disabilities in the criminal legal system:
Ensure that students with disabilities have access to effective and safe education: