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When People With Disabilities Are Forced to Choose Between Love and Needed Benefits: Marriage Penalties
This Valentine’s Day, as many as 6 million couples will choose to celebrate their love by becoming engaged. But for many people with IDD, this dream of marriage forces them to choose between love ...
Click Here for Inclusion: Staying Connected During COVID-19
For people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), a fully integrated life in the community often depends on not only people-powered supports like direct support professionals and jo...
The Workplace in 2020: How Employers Can Support Jobseekers With Disabilities
This is the second of a two-part series that The Arc@Work will publish this month to speak on the new and emerging challenges faced by workers with IDD and how employers, disability services agencie...
Comcast NBCUniversal and The Arc Team up to Support Local Disability Agencies and Digital Literacy for People With Disabilities
The Arc of the United States and Comcast NBCUniversal today
announced a three-year renewal of their national partnership to expand digital
technology opportunities for people with intellectual and de...
The Disability Community Must Once Again Show #WeAreEssential
By: Nicole Jorwic, Senior Director of Public Policy, The Arc
After being all but ignored in the first three legislative packages that Congress has passed to address the COVID-19 pandemic, the disabil...
The Power of Belonging: A Community Comes Together
By Rachel Baker
Our community of Midland, Michigan, is a community that works hard to create inclusive opportunities for everyone. This past January, The Arc of Midland received a grant to organize...
New Videos From The Arc Spotlight Need to Close Institutions, Support Community Living
In 2019, 37 states still have institutions where people with intellectual and developmental (I/DD) live away from their families and communities. Some may recall the horrible investigative reports ove...
Perseverance in Planning: The Value of Building an Inclusive Volunteerism Program
Building an inclusive volunteering community can be stressful, but it is often incredibly rewarding as well! This year, we asked Erica Delma from Holly Ridge Center to share her journey as a gran...
Celebrating National Caregiver Month With The Arc Wisconsin
Each November, we observe National Caregiver Month – honoring those who devote their lives to providing care for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The daily demands of...