- Justice System
NDRN Joins Amicus in Solitary Confinement Case
July 19, 2019
NDRN joined an amicus authored by the firm Ropes and Gray pro bono supports a complaint filed by Disability Rights Montana, alleging that the Montana Dept. of Corrections violated the Eighth Amendment by providing inadequate mental health treatment, inappropriate discipline and placing prisoners with mental illness in solitary confinement.
Amicus Brief - Employment
House Passes Increase to the Minimum Wage, Ends Subminimum Wage for People with Disabilities
July 18, 2019
Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Raise the Wage Act, which would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and phase out section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, a provision that permits employers to pay some people with disabilities even less…
Press Release - Education
Joint Statement on Maintaining the Least Restrictive Environment Requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
July 18, 2019
A coalition of professional, legal and advocacy organizations met with ED Chief of Staff Nate Bailey, Acting General Counsel Reed Rubenstein and OSERS Assistant Secretary Johnny Collett to discuss what we considered to be an imminent threat of a policy reinterpretation of the LRE provisions, which is a cornerstone…
Statement - Census
Disability Community Highlighted at Senate Hearing on Census 2020
July 16, 2019
During a Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs hearing entitled "2020 Census: Conducting a Secure and Accurate Count," Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) asked the Census Bureau Director, Dr. Steven Dillingham, questions related to people with disabilities.
General - Census
Census 2020 will Not Include a Citizenship Question
July 12, 2019
Yesterday afternoon, President Trump announced that the 2020 Census will not include a citizenship question, following the Supreme Court’s decision on June 27th to block the addition of the question until the Department of Commerce provided a better justification for adding the question to next year’s census form.
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