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December 3, 2018
Tennessee Report Highlights Improvements Made to Increase Employment for People with Disabilities
Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (DIDD) released the Expect Employment Report highlighting improvements in the employment rate for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, increased partnerships with employers, and the expansion of state government internships for people with disabilities.
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November 30, 2018
HELP Democratic Staff Releases Disability Employment Report
The Democratic staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP Committee) has released a report examining disability employment outcomes using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), summarizing disability employment law, describing programs that are “out of step with modern disability employment policy in the United States,” and providing an update on the Committee’s oversight of state practices to implement the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Rehabilitation Act).
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November 1, 2018
ACL Awards for Data Collection Grants The Administration for Community Living (ACL) has awarded thr
The Administration for Community Living (ACL) has awarded three grants to continue and expand the collection and analysis of national longitudinal trends pertaining to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities around the issues of state spending for developmental disabilities services, residential services, and employment services.
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November 1, 2018
MFP Reauthorization Passed Out of House Committee
The Committee on Energy and Commerce (E&C) has passed the Ensuring Medicaid Provides Opportunities for Widespread Equity, Resources (EMPOWER) and Care Act, which would reauthorize the Money Follows the Person (MFP) program for one year.
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October 31, 2018
Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council Release Grant to People on the Go of Maryland (POG)
This grant continues the Council's long history of support of POG's work, which focuses on developing and supporting effective advocates with developmental disabilities to effect change in their own lives, as well as the lives of others.