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Community Voices October 26, 2023 - 11:29 am

Sarah Cole: Legislative leaders spread biased tropes about disabled Kansans in crusade against Medicaid (Column)

by Sarah Cole, Kansas Reflector

”Though disabled people are often prevented from doing the work they would prefer to be doing … most, if not all, of those barriers come not from within disabled people but rather from the outside world,” Sarah Cole writes in this Kansas Reflector column.

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