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Fighting the Disability Industrial Complex
Voices

Fighting the Disability Industrial Complex

BySteve 2023-08-152023-08-15

What I repeatedly see is a policy that allows extreme profiting from disability and inequitable delivery and utilization of Home and Community Based Services. There is a genocide being covered up in America. People with disabilities are being murdered in group homes. Case in point, private group homes owned by KKR are under investigation currently….

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A call to end Institutional Bias in Attendant Pay Rates
Voices

A call to end Institutional Bias in Attendant Pay Rates

ByDNW Contributors 2023-01-182023-08-15

End the institutional bias in Attendant pay rates. I’m presenting a case for equity in Personal Care Attendants’ pay rates by sending this email*, The low pay of Consumer Directed (CD) in-home Personal Care Attendants has caused my husband not to return to work and is one of the factors of why I resigned from…

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It is time to fix Personal Care services
Voices

It is time to fix Personal Care services

ByDNW Contributors 2022-02-032023-01-18

I have been using Consumer Directed (CD) Personal Care Attendant services for over two decades. I’m writing this letter about the lack of equity between CD in home pay rates and group home pay rates. Consumer Directed Personal Care Attendant services were already broken COVID19 has exacerbated systems such as CD Personal Care Attendant services…

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