Fewer people with disabilities were employed in 2020 compared to 2019, but more recently, labor force participation rose in February over January. Organizations in the field are redoubling efforts to ...

WASHINGTON Most Americans with intellectual or developmental disabilities remain shut out of the workforce, despite changing attitudes and billions spent on government programs to help them. Even when ...

WASHINGTON – Disability rights groups fear a death penalty case before the Supreme Court could have implications for the intellectually disabled far beyond the criminal context. The justices are ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. More than two decades ago, the Supreme ...

An intellectually disabled man kept in an alarmed unit for 25 years and only allowed in public while supervised is one of a handful of Victorians found to have been unlawfully detained by National ...

Many intellectually disabled people work in fast food, and retail chains such as Walgreens, Best Buy and Safeway that have stepped up to hire them. Another hurdle is that about 30 percent of ...