Kyle Glozier

    The grassroots disability rights group ADAPT is headed back to our nation’s capital, Washington, DC this week for the spring 2025 national action.   This year’s theme is keys to community living which are housing, wages, and services, which are so critical for people with disabilities. ADAPT’s four-decade-long campaign to end the institutional bias in Medicaid for people with disabilities has been a struggle.   Most of the wheelchair accessible low-income housing is in the bad parts of the cities or the worst rural.   Here in Washington, PA, I live in the center of the city with the courthouse a block away.   The local Center for Independent Living, Voices for Independence, is two blocks away.   A full grocery store and a pharmacy are half a block.   Even the Lutheran church that I attend is three blocks from my apartment. There is an accessible fixed-route bus that stops right outside on the street that takes me to Walmart.   When th...