To create an accurate record of history, news organizations in 2025 must become serious about the disability beat by understanding and actively resisting ableism.
Disabled people make up the largest minority group in the U.S., with over 1 in 4 people self-reporting a disability in 2022.
Eugenics and ableism have historically gone hand in hand. Nazi Germany's fascist campaign was propped up by eugenicist science that first began in the U.S.
The U.S. is only now finally working to close a loophole that let employers pay some disabled people a subminimum wage.
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