Shapiro aims to eliminate waiting list for services for intellectually disabled adults

Gov. Josh Shapiro and his top human services official say the administration has a plan to end a waiting list of thousands of families who are considered to be in dire need of help for an ... Read More

What Trump Supporters Think When He Mocks People With Disabilities

Scores of Trump supporters are older, and are therefore more likely to be disabled themselves. Most everyone can think of at least one disabled friend or family member, a person they wouldn’t ... Read More

People with learning disabilities 'locked up'

People with learning disabilities are being "locked up" instead of receiving care in the community, according to a campaign group. Dawn Cavanagh, who founded Stolen Lives, said people with ... Read More

Tech leaders have all the skills for politics. Still, most don't want to run.

Palmer, who has no political experience, told USA TODAY ... the people and for the people and I think that's not how current-day politics works." Wilson said she would someday consider running ... Read More

Politics simply not funny

People who read my columns often ask why I don’t write more about politics. It’s simple, there is nothing funny about politics. It is often actually quite stressful. Every time the news turns ... Read More

Fox News Politics: Battleground Democrat retreats from House

Annie Kuster of New Hampshire says she won’t seek re-election to the House of Representatives this year. "I always said I was not going to stay in Congress forever – I will not be seeking re ... Read More

Trump has changed politics, from f-bombs to videos of his opponent hogtied

Prep for the polls: See who is running for president and compare where they stand on key issues in our Voter Guide Experts USA TODAY spoke ... in national politics. “Maybe people are just ... Read More

News tagged with autistic people

About one-third of autistic people are unable to communicate using speech, and most are never provided an effective alternative. However, a new study from scientists at the University of Virginia ... Read More

Did You Come of Age in the Trump Era of Politics? We Want to Hear From You.

By Jennifer Medina Were you too young to follow American politics before 2015 ... without following up with and hearing back from you first. Jennifer Medina is a Los Angeles-based political ... Read More

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The U.N. population fund says in a new study that an African woman ... patient privacy under a near-total ban on the procedure ABC News' Linsey Davis speaks with Nobel Prize-winning molecular ... Read More

Politics Friday from MPR News

Politics Friday: The landscape of Minnesota education legislation and the outlook of busin... April 11, 2024 • State lawmakers have budgeted to provide more than $23 billion to schools in the ... Read More

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