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Kim Knackstedt on Disability Policy, Algernon Austin on Unemployment & Race
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CounterSpin
This week on CounterSpin: “I wanna see feisty disabled people change the world.” So declared disability rights activist Judy Heumann, who died last weekend at age 75.
As a child with polio, Heumann was denied entry to kindergarten on grounds that her wheelchair was a fire hazard.
Here’s hoping they’ll extend their interest into the barriers disabled people face in 2023, and how policy changes could address them.
We’ll talk with Kim Knackstedt, senior fellow at the Century Foundation and director of the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative.
Algernon Austin from the Center for Economic Policy and Research will help us understand how employment data can obscure even as it reveals, and how—if our problem is joblessness—there are, in fact, time-tested responses.
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