DES MOINES, Iowa — Local organizations that support people with disabilities are bracing themselves for potential budget cuts in 2026. One group, Disability Rights Iowa, is taking extra steps ahead of ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Several Iowa organizations serving people with disabilities are worried their programs may be cut after a federal internal budget document was leaked last week. The Washington Post ...

The Trump administration is trying to slash access to lawyers who defend the rights of Americans with disabilities, advocates say. Most of the lawyers work either for the Department of Justice or for ...

Zach Mecham has heard politicians demand that Medicaid recipients work or lose their benefits. He also has run into a jumble of Medicaid rules that effectively prevent many people with disabilities ...

Gov. Terry Branstad's decision to hand over the state's $5 billion Medicaid program to three out-of-state insurance companies on April 1 was meant to free up state dollars for other budget items and ...

Four-year-old Rustin 'Rusty' Haugh who suffers from Combined Oxidative Phosphorylation Deficiency 11, or COXPD11, walks in a hospital lobby after a doctor's appointment in Dallas, Wednesday, July 23, ...

Andy Washburn has been in *** wheelchair for 20 years. He knows what it's like to learn to live with *** disability. Washburn works at the Granite State Independent Living Foundation to help others ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — Nancy Jensen believes she’d still be living in an abusive group home if it wasn’t shut down in 2004 with the help of the Disability Rights Center of Kansas, which for decades has ...