By PAHO Washington D.C. 28 June 2024 – A new report launched by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reveals that while overall life expectancy has risen in the Americas, so has the number of people living with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Rapid population aging has led to an increase in ill health and disabilities caused […]
By Christina Stafford and Mia Ives-Rublee | American Progress Prisons and jails are some of the United States’ largest providers of mental health services.1 Every year, more than 2 million people with serious mental illnesses are booked into jail.2 The U.S. Department of Justice’s 2011–2012 national inmate survey reported that 1 in 7 people in state and […]
Commitment to Inclusive Workplaces Brings Strong Benefits - Thomas P. DiNapoli
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced that he has called on 49 of the largest U.S. companies, including Apple, McDonald’s, Nike and Twentieth Century Fox, to report on their inclusion of people with disabilities across the enterprise. “We want the companies our pension fund invests in to be desirable places to work […]
