• Former NYC deputy mayor raises millions for ALS research while facing his own mortality

    Former NYC deputy mayor raises millions for ALS research while facing his own mortality

    Nov 01, 2023 10:30 PM EDT

    ... a cure, one patient is raising millions for the cause while he reckons with his own mortality. Judy Woodruff has the story for our series, Disability Reframed. ... Geoff Bennett: Some 30,000 Americans have been diagnosed with ALS, a rare neurodegenerative condition also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. As ...

  • Advocates concerned about workers with disabilities earning below minimum wage

    Advocates concerned about workers with disabilities earning below minimum wage

    Oct 05, 2023 10:35 PM EDT

    ... much tougher. Only about 20% of them have a job and some who do are paid less than the federal minimum wage. After protests from disability advocates, the Department of Labor announced it would review the policy that makes this possible. Judy Woodruff reports for our series, Disability Reframed. ... Amna ...

  • Oklahomans with disabilities face long waitlists for home and community-based services

    Oklahomans with disabilities face long waitlists for home and community-based services

    May 22, 2023 10:25 PM EDT

    ... a job or getting around town. Judy Woodruff spoke with families in Oklahoma waiting for the help they need. It's part of our series, Disability Reframed. ... Geoff Bennett:  More than half-a-million Americans are on waiting lists to receive long term care in their homes, instead of at ...

  • New book ‘Unfit Parent’ provides valuable parenting lessons from the disabled community

    New book ‘Unfit Parent’ provides valuable parenting lessons from the disabled community

    Apr 12, 2025 09:35 PM EDT

    ... Jessica Slice shares how her experience being disabled prepared her for parenthood. Ali Rogin speaks with Slice about her new book for our series, “Disabilities Reframed.” Deaf Interpreter: Vanessa Arp of VALIDEAF. ... John Yang: Last year, the surgeon general warned that parents in the United States are overwhelmed and burned ...

  • Scholar says Trump's efforts to reframe U.S. history is 'reminiscent of McCarthyism'

    Scholar says Trump's efforts to reframe U.S. history is 'reminiscent of McCarthyism'

    Aug 20, 2025 10:20 PM EDT

    ... segregation, but also the civil rights movement and the suffrage movement and the women's movement and LGBTQIA, how queer folks transformed this country, the disability rights movement, immigrants. Amna Nawaz: You know, the museums are just one piece of a larger conversation around this. The conversation and reframing of ...

  • Column: Social Security needs to be reformed, not have its funding cut

    Column: Social Security needs to be reformed, not have its funding cut

    Dec 14, 2016 07:51 PM EDT

    ... the application to make sure that the SSA rep included the remark. Ann – Ga.: My husband and I are 60. He gets SSDI [Social Security Disability Income], and they take $106 out per month for Medicare Part B. I am on Obamacare and pay $68 per month. In trying to ...

  • Social Security recipients will get an average increase of $56 per month

    Social Security recipients will get an average increase of $56 per month

    Oct 24, 2025 02:07 PM EDT

    ... and disability recipients, will be unable to pay full benefits beginning in 2034. Then, Social Security would only be able to pay 81% of benefits. Social Security benefits were last reformed roughly 40 years ago, when the federal government raised the eligibility age for the program from 65 to 67.

  • Medicare, Social Security could fall short over next decade, report says

    Medicare, Social Security could fall short over next decade, report says

    Mar 31, 2023 07:36 PM EDT

    ... home health care starting in 2031. Social Security, meanwhile, will be able to cover only 77 percent of benefits starting in 2033. Social Security's disability trust fund is in much better shape — it's not expected to be depleted within the next 75 years. WATCH: Sen. Elizabeth Warren on ...

  • Activists and historians remember Jim Toy as a pioneering leader in LGBTQ rights

    Activists and historians remember Jim Toy as a pioneering leader in LGBTQ rights

    Jan 05, 2022 10:21 PM EDT

    ... which he denied for some time longer. “My ‘identity’ is a tapestry of many threads -- race and ethnicity, color, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability/disability, appearance, age, religious belief, political belief,” Toy said in a 2015 interview with NBC Asian America. “If one of the threads is plucked, the ...

  • Column: What can we do to protect Medicare and Social Security?

    Column: What can we do to protect Medicare and Social Security?

    Dec 21, 2016 10:40 PM EDT

    ... money that we put into these programs during our working lives? Is there anything we can do? READ MORE: Column: Social Security needs to be reformed, not have its funding cut Phil Moeller: AARP and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare might welcome volunteers as they step ...