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Disability rights activist Judy Heumann

Judy Heumann

This week on CounterSpin: "I wanna see feisty disabled people change the world.” So declared disability rights activist Judy Heumann ([link removed]) , who died last weekend at age 75. As a child with polio, Heumann was denied entry to kindergarten on grounds that her wheelchair was a fire hazard. Later, she was denied a teachers license for reasons no more elevated. She sued, won and became the first teacher in New York to use a wheelchair. Media love those kinds of breakthroughs, and they matter. Here's hoping they'll extend their interest into the barriers disabled people face in 2023, and how policy changes could address them. We'll talk with Kim Knackstedt, senior fellow at the Century Foundation and director of the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative ([link removed]) .

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Signs from the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963

And speaking of problems that aren't actually behind us: You will have heard that the US is experiencing "blowout job growth," and unemployment is at a "historic low," with gains extending even to historically marginalized Black people. Algernon Austin from the Center for Economic Policy and Research ([link removed]) will help us understand how employment data can obscure even as it reveals, and how—if our problem is joblessness—there are, in fact, time-tested responses.

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