The House on Thursday passed legislation that would amend the Americans With Disabilities Act over objections from disability rights advocates and Democratic leaders, who warned that the bill would remove incentives for businesses to comply with the law. The ADA…
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WV ABLE Website
WV ABLE’s website is live! Please visit the link below for more information. If you have questions, feel free to contact the WV State Treasurer’s Office at 1-800-439-1653 or the NWVCIL at 304-296-6091. https://wvable.com/ What is a STABLE Account? A…
Voters with Disabilities Blocked from the Ballot
SILC Open for Applications
January 3, 2018 Interested Persons: Are you a person with a disability who wants to get involved and make a difference? Do you have a family member with a disability or do you work to improve life for people with…
A Helpful Guide to West Virginia’s New Voter Identification Law
NWVCIL’s Youth Club!
NPR Series on Sexual Assault and Intellectual Disabilities
At a moment of reckoning in the United States about sexual harassment and sexual assault, a yearlong NPR investigation finds that there’s little recognition of a group of Americans that is one of the most at risk: adults with intellectual…
World AIDS Day
“On this World AIDS Day we are here to remind you that ‘Everybody Counts’! Everybody counts if we are to achieve universal health coverage and everybody must count if we are to eliminate AIDS and viral hepatitis as public health…
National Call-In Day on Wednesday, November 29
Stop the #TaxOnDisability The individual mandate, tax credits, and medical deductions make the lives of disabled Americans easier. The GOP wants to end them. If the GOP Senate manages to eliminate the individual mandate provisions of the Affordable Care Act insurance premiums…
Graham-Cassidy Healthcare Bill Introduced
Graham-Cassidy Healthcare Bill Introduced From http://www.advocacymonitor.com/ This Wednesday, Senators Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson (GCHJ) proposal (PDF), the Republicans’ last-ditch effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and make major cuts to Medicaid. Like the…