About 20 million disabled people will be erased if the U.S. Census Bureau moves forward with changes to disability data collection methods. That is because many disabled people will no longer be ...

The U.S. Census Bureau will not make any changes to the way it counts the number of Americans with disabilities for at least two years following concerns that planned updates could lead to a severe ...

The U.S. Census Bureau says it received thousands of comments after proposing major changes to the way it counts the number of Americans with disabilities and is deciding whether to finalize the plan.

Since the early 2000s, a number of US stakeholders have sought to revise the methodology used to measure disability in federal surveys such as the American Community Survey (ACS). A key actor in this ...

Swenor is the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center. Landes is an associate professor of sociology and O’Hanley faculty scholar at Syracuse University. Hall is ...

Every year, the United States Census Bureau conducts the American Community Survey to capture up-to-date information on people’s experiences on everything from employment rates to housing costs. And ...

Nearly 27 percent of US adults have a disability, with evidence that rates of disability have been increasing over time, especially in recent years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For some people, ...

The U.S. Census Bureau has put the brakes on a controversial proposal that would change how it counts people with disabilities. Critics of the proposed change argue that it could underestimate the ...

The disability community is a growing political constituency, and the debates have yet to really address policy priorities affecting the 57 million people in this community. A man pushes a woman in a ...

There is still time for disabled voters to ask candidates about their most pressing disability concerns. But time is running out, and it can be hard to know just what to ask. It’s getting closer to ...