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...
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...
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...
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...
5 bills every Michigan disability family should know about in 2026 Four federal bills and one state budget fight. Each one has a bill number, a committee, and a person...
K.B. v. Michigan DHHS: what the children’s HCBS settlement means for adult services A federal court made Michigan build statewide intensive home and community based services for children. Your adult...
Building evidence that gets services approved: photograph, video, write it down Five kinds of evidence decide most waiver and service disputes, and four of them you have to create yourself....
The binder that could save your family: building a lifetime advocacy record Nine sections, one three-ring binder, and a rule about writing things down that has settled more disputes in...
Seven tax breaks disability caregivers keep leaving on the table Most families supporting an adult child with a disability claim two of these. The other five exist, are legal, and...
The two bills that could actually save your services One puts emergency money into a collapsing workforce for two years. The other removes the structural rule that makes an institution...
