The Arc of the United States | Disability Rights, Advocacy & Resources

People with intellectual and developmental disabilities, or IDD, are part of every community. They are students, workers, voters, family members, advocates, neighbors, and people directly affected by the systems journalists cover every day.
But too often, people with IDD are left out of stories about disability, Medicaid, education, healthcare, housing, transportation, employment, criminal justice, and community life. When they’re included, coverage can still rely on outdated language,...

Staff for the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) released a new report yesterday documenting a steep decline in enforceable civil rights outcomes at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR)...

Nine U.S. states—Alaska, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, South Dakota, and Texas—are still part of Texas v. Kennedy, a lawsuit that targets Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Section 504 requires that any program or...

Statement from Katy Neas on RFK Jr.’s Medicaid and HCBS Comments:
“Recent comments from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a House Committee hearing, and similar statements from CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, reflect a troubling pattern of mischaracterizing Medicaid and the essential role of home and community-based...