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...
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...
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...
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...
How Oakland County families killed a $215 million rate cut Section 1033 would have stripped $4.56 an hour out of direct care agency rates while leaving the wage mandate in...
Special education funding reform and the MI Blueprint School funding sounds like someone else’s fight once your child ages out. It isn’t. Every dollar Michigan fails to invest in special...
When waiting lists act like policy tools A waiting list is not a queue that eventually empties. On an HCBS waiver, it is a rationing mechanism, sized by legislative appropriation,...
