Weeds Time Machine: The ADA
Explain It to Me
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The Reagan Administration and the Disability Rights Movement
There is some aggressive and quite punishing efforts by the Reagan administration to kick people off of Social Security disability insurance. In part because of the backlash Congress and the courts installed some protections and SSDI, which eventually led to the expansion of the program. Because of some of these limited areas of collaboration, the disability rights movement actually does learn to work with some Republicans. That proves crucial when it comes to the eventual push to pass the ADA.
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