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Matthew Cortland (they)
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🖋️ Lawyer, advocate, writer, public health nerd
🦠 Immunocompromised, chronically ill, disabled
Then: SSI, SNAP, Medicaid
Now: data & policy, disability, healthcare.
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Colleagues at NPWF have an excellent explainer of the proposed changes here: nationalpartnership.org/new-census-p...
New Census proposal would reduce the number of disabled women and girls counted by nearly 10 million...
A new proposal from Census would change the definition of disability in the American Community Survey, reducing the official count of disabled people by 40 percent. This change could have significant ...
If you've had an issue with the bot, I've put more resource$ behind it, and it should – hopefully – be a bit more reliable now
Holy fuck. This is so ghoulish.
Super useful explainer. What a shit show in terms of how disability assessed now and even more so for the proposed revisions.
MC
Matthew Cortland (they)
@matthewcort.land
🖋️ Lawyer, advocate, writer, public health nerd
🦠 Immunocompromised, chronically ill, disabled
Then: SSI, SNAP, Medicaid
Now: data & policy, disability, healthcare.
🔗 linktr.ee/matthewcortland
🏳️🌈nonbinary
5.5k followers390 following5.5k posts