Addition By Subtraction: When The Other Parent Leaves Ten years ago my wife left. Six years ago I taped a note to the front door and she never came back....
The Number That Explains Everything: Half the Workforce Caring for Our Kids Is on Public AssistanceForty nine percent of direct care workers rely on public assistance. The median wage is...
Starting July 2027, States Must Publish Their Waiting List Numbers. Here’s How to Use Them.For more than forty years no state had to tell anyone how long people wait for...
9.7 Million Direct Care Job Openings by 2034. The Government Still Has No Code for the Job.The Bureau of Labor Statistics has no occupational classification for direct support professionals. They...
Tracking What’s Disappearing: A Michigan Service Elimination WatchlistOne Michigan service is confirmed gone. Five more items are moving. This is a living inventory families can check, built only from things...
The Two Conversations About Autism That Never MeetThirty one states have written Employment First into law. The Lancet Commission has defined a quarter of autistic people as needing round the...
Only One State Has No Waiting List for Disability Services. Here’s What It Costs.I went looking for states that eliminated their waiting lists and found that most of the ones...
Michigan’s Three Waivers Explained: HSW, MI Choice, and the Children’s WaiverMichigan runs three separate home and community based waivers, and they do not connect the way families assume. Different eligibility,...
MDHHS Tried to Consolidate Michigan’s Behavioral Health System. A Court Stopped It.Ten regional entities would have become three. A consultant was paid millions to design the procurement. In January 2026...
Maryland Advocates Clawed Back $300 Million in Disability Cuts: Here’s the PlaybookMaryland’s governor proposed cutting $457 million from the Developmental Disabilities Administration. Ten weeks later the House Appropriations Committee restored...
