Health Affairs

A Need For Disability Data Justice

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the tight link between data and equity. Data are critical to identifying disparities, promoting social mobility, and advancing health for our communities. But gaps in ...
CNBC

13% of Americans have a disability—what this means during the job application process

For more than 40 million Americans, job applications may pose a challenging question: Do you have a disability? Roughly 13% of the U.S. population identifies as having a disability, according to the ...
Health Affairs

Improved State-Level Disability Data Are Necessary For Advancing Health Equity

(Editor’s note: The federal government has removed several web pages linked to in this brief. Where possible, links to archived versions have been inserted.) Data are the cornerstone of public health ...
Forbes

Disability Data Alarmingly Absent From AI Algorithmic Tools, Report Suggests

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gus Alexiou is a London-based reporter covering disability inclusion. Current AI and algorithmic decision-making tools, the use of ...
STAT

Millions of people are missing from U.S. disability data

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 ...
KXAN

Data: Texas ranks third-worst for people waiting for disability benefits, some dying

AUSTIN (KXAN) — New applicants for disability benefits are having to wait upwards of seven months for their claims to be processed, according to Social Security Benefit data. And that’s only getting ...