Jill Stein - Presidential Platform
Disability Rights
A Jill Stein Administration will guarantee as a human right that every person with visible or invisible disabilities is free from ableist policies that harm and isolate them.
We commit to ending disparities in pay, benefits, housing, healthcare, and education, and commit to disability inclusion and representation to ensure that all people can contribute their talents and skills as full members of a diverse and thriving society.
Here's how:
- Work towards economic security for people with disabilities by ensuring opportunities to partake fully in the economy at a fair wage and to enable financial security for all
- Make sure that technology is accessible and supports the goals of the diverse lives of people with disabilities
- Help children with disabilities and their families by providing life-changing early interventions and getting them valuable access to education
- Defend the civil liberties of people with disabilities in areas like criminal justice, voting, physical and mental health, parental rights, and marriage equality
- End all exceptions in wage laws and workplace protections for individuals with disabilities
- Expand Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Social Income (SSI) to a living wage of greater than 10% of regional Cost of Living calculations
- Expand access to Social Security/SSDI/SSI, including assistance of public lawyers in SSDI application.
- Expand access to Social Security/SSDI/SSI, including assistance of public lawyers in SSDI application.
- Eliminate SSI waiting periods and disability proof requirements
- Update the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), with updates to be informed by people in the disabled community.
- Fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- Pass the Disabilities Integration Act (https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/555)
- Expand funding for Aging and Disability Resource Centers (ADRCs)
- Ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
- Ensure that disabled immigrants are afforded the same immigration rights as non-disabled immigrants
- Federally invest in upgrading all existing public housing and public schools to ADA accessibility standards
- Provide Federal funding to meet ADA accessibility and accommodation requests by individual residents, students and faculty
- Provide Federal funding to meet ADA accessibility and accommodation requests by individual residents, students and faculty
- Create a federal "Disability Education Services Agency" to offer public schools resources and training to support students with disabilities
- Pass a permanent Money Follows the Person (https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/long-term-services-supports/money-follows-person/index.html) (MFP) program to resist institutionalization and ensure a Right to Return to homes and community
- Eliminate small business exemptions to the ADA; Appropriate federal funds to achieve compliance by small businesses
- Establish federal marriage equality to eliminate marriage penalties for individuals with disabilities
- Ensure opioid pain management protections for those with chronic and debilitating pain
- Ensure a federal jobs guarantee covers people with disabilities, particularly with respect to limited work schedules and nontraditional job roles