Posts Tagged ‘advocacy’
Many people with disabilities are working for less than the minimum wage across South Carolina. Advocates across the state are working to change that.
Six organizations are joining forces to urge state officials to provide better protections for people living and working in long-term care facilities.
South Carolina disability rights, gender justice, and racial justice advocates joined forces to urge Governor McMaster to implement protections during COVID-19 and beyond for residents of congregate facilities for seniors and people with disabilities and those who care for them.
For decades, the Babcock building has served as a painful reminder of the ways that people with psychiatric, intellectual and developmental disabilities were abused, neglected, and segregated from society.
Before the flames rose over South Carolina’s Capital City early Saturday morning, the Babcock Building with its garnet cupola stood in polarity —a notable part of Columbia’s skyline but for some a traumatic reminder of historic abuse and neglect.
In South Carolina, thousands of people with disabilities can work a job and only make a fraction of the minimum wage.
During this time, people with disabilities like myself have been shown, time and again, that we are not being considered or included in respect, relief and support. That our lives are expendable—an unfortunate but necessary loss.