According to estimates from the SSA's 2026 COLA Fact Sheet, the average monthly retired-worker benefit is expected to climb ...

In a proposal released last week, the federal government would stop issuing new certificates that allow companies to pay subminimum wage to disabled workers while phasing out old certificates over a ...

Critics said the president’s remarks after the crash caused damage to an already underrepresented segment of the work force. By Rachel Nostrant Miles O’Brien lost his left arm in 2014, losing with it ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Spencer Goidel, a 33-year-old federal worker in Boca Raton, Florida, with autism, knew what he could be losing when he got laid off from his job as an equal employment opportunity ...

While various Democrats and disability rights groups have been advocating in recent years for disabled workers to get paid higher wages, slashing certain low-wage job programs could potentially ...

Angus Chen covers all issues broadly related to cancer including drugs, policy, science, and equity. He joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at NPR and NPR affiliate stations. His ...

The US government and other major employers like Amazon.com Inc., Deloitte LLP, and JPMorgan Chase led the continued push in ...

Those same Democrats who scold economic journalists for reporting truthfully about the economy don’t hesitate to affirm that the 49.97 percent plurality that cast its vote for Donald Trump got played ...

Nearly 35 years after the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, President Donald Trump's executive order targeting all federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility efforts — as ...

Under section 14(c) of the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, some people with disabilities can legally be paid pennies an hour. A new rule proposed by the Department of Labor would end the ...