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...
Illinois Built the DSP Wage Into the Rate. Michigan Stacked Three Temporary Add-Ons.Both states raised direct care wages. Only one of them made the raise permanent. Michigan’s entire increase sits...
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...
Michigan pays direct care workers $17.13. Illinois pays $21.30. Same labor market, same year, same job. A four dollar and seventeen cent gap that Michigan rebuilds by hand every single...
What Maine’s billion dollar hole teaches Michigan Community based support costs roughly a third of institutional care, generates more economic activity per dollar than most state spending, and is the...
