The world is built for able-bodied people by able-bodied people.
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One, if somebody is able-bodied or somebody thinks they're able-bodied, you can throw them off of the list.
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This point is particularly important for middle-class, able-bodied, cisgendered white people to reflect on (a point we make as middle-class, able-bodied, cisgendered white people ourselves).
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It has this Richard Simmons-esque, '80s quality to it and shows positions for an able-bodied man with a quadriplegic woman, or a quadriplegic man with an able-bodied woman.
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These aren't people who aren't working ... they're not able bodied.
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Mainstream porn generally featured thin, white, cisgender, and able-bodied actors.
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So, that's not to say that able-bodied folks don't care.
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Are you an able-bodied person with a fetish for disabilities?
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And many disabled roles still go to able-bodied actors, too.
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The Trump administration says "able-bodied" adults on Medicaid should work.
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They tried to kill able-bodied males, while separating out females.
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An able-bodied person isn't in constant negotiation with their body.
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Nowhere is this growth more evident than among able-bodied adults.
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Work requirements are only for able-bodied recipients of public support.
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I am an able-bodied person who works out pretty frequently.
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Millions of able-bodied Americans are no longer in the workforce.
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Overall, the number of able-bodied adults without dependents is small.
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They particularly question whether able-bodied, working-age adults should be covered.
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She says going to castings with able-bodied models doesn't intimidate her.
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It means beginning an orderly deportation process for able-bodied young men.
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They even have their own moniker: ABAWDs (Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents).
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More than 60% of able-bodied adults who receive Medicaid already work.
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Able-bodied people often benefit from solutions created for people with disabilities.
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I used to think I wanted a girlfriend who was able-bodied.
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As a pretend, able-bodied woman, I received all kinds of messages.
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She'd also like to impose some work requirements to able-bodied recipients.
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It was a high score battle against my own able-bodied ghost.
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I can barely remember what it was like to be able-bodied.
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Healthy, able-bodied people tend to have an unlimited number of spoons.
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Even if they are able-bodied, let's feed them, not punish them.
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Everyone in the audience is young and able-bodied and likes fruit.
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First, able-bodied parents who left welfare more than doubled their incomes.
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"For able-bodied, single adults, I certainly favor work requirements," Cole said.
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If he starts removing able-bodied troops, it makes that fight harder.
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McKinsey, a consultancy, says Japan should encourage able-bodied elderly people to help.
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But why is that any different from having sex with able-bodied women?
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A major misconception is that Medicaid only serves able-bodied low income people.
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In fact, 95 percent of disabled characters are portrayed by able-bodied actors.
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Full employment does not mean that every able-bodied adult has a job.
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Of the 32 he met, none had dementia, and all were able-bodied.
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Exploring one's sexuality is a daunting task even for able-bodied young people.
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In the present, Naoufel — the able-bodied, if hapless, young man — is gone.
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"Even when I was able-bodied, I took plenty for granted," Kindleysides said.
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We were the normal ones; the able-bodied spectators, they were the weirdos.
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She left him with the only able-bodied relative there, his auntie Dee.
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"Able-bodied" has lately come to feel technical, not ideological; objective, not judgmental.
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The differences between myself and able-bodied people came into sudden, sharp focus.
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If you were an able-bodied young guy, you almost had to play.
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One new proposal is requiring able-bodied, working-age Medicaid enrollees to work.
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Will this AI favor able-bodied people in its interpretation of injury or harm?
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Of the able-bodied adults enrolled in the program, most of them already work.
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The work requirement applies to able-bodied working age Medicaid enrollees, according to HHS.
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As a disabled person, it's ingrained in you not to inconvenience the able-bodied.
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My other partner is able-bodied, but he's really good at listening to me.
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The block grant will apply to the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion population's "able-bodied" people.
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The average contestant is cis, white, able-bodied, heterosexual, and above a certain income.
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Now she competes against able-bodied gymnasts in two events on bars and beam.
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NBD, able-bodied 🚇 riders who won't give your seat to a GIANT preggo.
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Two years of military service is compulsory for all able-bodied South Korean men.
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Several Republican lawmakers insisted that any able-bodied American should be able to serve.
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She also envisions a time when the able-bodied public understands this topic better.
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Able-bodied women and men will fast from sunrise to sunset for a month.
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States are allotted exemptions every year for 2628 percent of able-bodied, childless adults.
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I explained how arresting a friend and I, both able-bodied, had found it.
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But an able-bodied world makes it hard to find this sort of fulfillment.
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Because I could pass for able-bodied, I could perform some kind of normalcy.
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In 2017, he won a national title competing against able-bodied athletes in Colorado.
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Strong would not be the first Paralympic athlete to compete against able-bodied competitors.
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"It would definitely be able to make able-bodied people run faster," he says.
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Medicaid is working, as are most able-bodied adults who are eligible for it.
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The other amendment would institute work requirements for "able-bodied," childless adults on Medicaid.
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"The number of able-bodied adults we're targeting here is relatively small," said Rep.
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Thanks to their resolve, millions of able-bodied adults have been saved from dependency.
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And the able-bodied men are not yet back from wherever they have been.
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ObamaCare is already making welfare for able-bodied adults a higher priority than funding for the truly needy, creating a perverse incentive for states to prioritize expansion's new class of able-bodied adults over services for the truly vulnerable, served by traditional Medicaid.
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"The debate on health care has moved from whether it should be the government's responsibility to insure young, able-bodied people to how the government should insure young, able-bodied people, and how comprehensive the insurance should be," Klein wrote in February.
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With Obamacare and Trump's speech, the debate on health care has moved from whether it should be the government's responsibility to insure young, able-bodied people to how the government should insure young, able-bodied people, and how comprehensive the insurance should be.
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It let me make the kinds of choices my able-bodied friends take for granted.
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"NBD, able-bodied riders who won't give your seat to a GIANT preggo," Wilde tweeted.
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Instead, they have been redirected to fund a new welfare program for able-bodied adults.
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Every able-bodied Muslim is supposed to undertake it at least once in the lifetime.
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The truth is 52% of able-bodied adults on SNAP work within a typical month.
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Moreover, about one-fifth of the state's Medicaid recipients are now childless, able-bodied adults.
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This cabinet is full of people who are straight, cisgender, able-bodied, Christian, and wealthy.
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Oftentimes, those stories are told by able-bodied individuals, so it's all about the journey.
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In this economy there is no excuse for the able bodied not to be working.
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And I'm not referring to its able-bodied stars' appearances in states of unembarrassed nudity.
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She also makes videos for able bodied people about how to interact with disabled people.
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The bill would impose strict work requirements for "able-bodied" adults who receive food stamps.
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In a study conducted by the company, 42 percent of respondents said they believe that those with physical disabilities are unable to perform most jobs done by able-bodied individuals, become physically fit, be as productive as able-bodied people and become world-class athletes.
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What I do know, or at least believe to be true, is that disability remains invisible and/or hard for able-bodied people to look at, because unlike racial, cultural, or sexual identities, it is an identity that any able-bodied person could possibly face.
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Notably, the test subjects with amputations performed the task as well as an able-bodied cohort.
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Scroll through my Instagram feed today, and you'd be forgiven for mistaking me as able-bodied.
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The budget text said it included proposals to help able-bodied adults enter the job market.
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It's also true that some able-bodied people may hesitate to date someone with a disability.
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The government has largely stopped forcing everyone able-bodied into the fields to help harvest cotton.
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Similarly, "The Vagina Monologues" has been charged with privileging the voices of white, able-bodied women.
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"Amy Schumer is blonde, white, able-bodied, femme and yes, thin," she continued in a thread.
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This funding formula currently gives states 95 cents on the dollar for ObamaCare's able-bodied adults.
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They certainly don't want any able-bodied people who could be working getting any such entitlements.
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Able-bodied people aren't required to give intimate details about their health in front of strangers.
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Conservatives believe the expansion discourages "able bodied" people from working because it provides free health care.
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This is in part because many able-bodied Americans are trapped in the Washington dependency system.
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Growing welfare programs with able-bodied adults is irresponsible and limits resources for truly vulnerable Americans.
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With the able-bodied working in fields or factories, the caregivers were often old or sick.
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The state for example, requires able-bodied adults receiving assistance to work 2350 hours per week.
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Federal health officials are already encouraging states to impose work requirements on "able-bodied" Medicaid recipients.
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Of the people who are both of working age and able-bodied, most do have jobs.
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I have the privilege of passing as completely able-bodied in appearance, if not in practice.
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The removal of sweatpants in a dressing room is the removal of an able-bodied facade.
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The "able-bodied" are now everywhere among government programs for the poor, Republican officials point out.
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If you're on food stamps, and you're able-bodied, we need you to go to work.
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He doesn't look like most of his teammates in that he's only 23 and able-bodied.
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Should we even consider "drafting" all able-bodied young adults into some form of national service?
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Now she has plans to do everyday activities many able-bodied people may take for granted.
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The partisan debate is focused on whether able-bodied, working-age adults should receive cash handouts.
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The lifetime cap proposals reflect the administration's view that only the "able-bodied" will be impacted.
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Republicans believe the expansion discourages "able bodied" people from working because it provides free health care.
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Smart policy that prioritizes work for able-bodied adults helps ensure that we uphold that duty.
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Census Bureau data show 44 percent of able-bodied adults in Medicaid don't work at all.
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Conservatives believe the expansion discourages "able-bodied" people from working because it provides free health care.
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They tend to be white, have class privilege, be able-bodied, conventionally attractive, you name it.
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Or that there should be a work requirement for able-bodied adults who want health insurance?
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Getting a hoop on a beach would be easy if you had four able-bodied people.
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"It puts an end to questions I might have had when I was able-bodied," said Lopez.
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"[We've] shown both able-bodied and wheelchair dancers that dance is possible at this level," says Hill.
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Maybe there's some government program although there aren't a whole lot for able-bodied men without children.
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Obama&aposs health care law gave states the option of expanding Medicaid coverage to able-bodied adults.
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" He added, "Not to seem like there's an able-bodied person not helping you with your groceries.
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If you were able-bodied and had a good attitude, there was something for you out there.
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Pavements, street signs and pedestrian signals, for example, are often designed for the young and able-bodied.
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Mark Walker (R-NC), wants to add new work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid recipients as well.
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He's a bigot who demeans anyone who is not a straight, white able-bodied male (Deplorable Don).
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The Trump administration argues that "able-bodied" adults on Medicaid should have to work to receive benefits.
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What goes through my head is, You could just leave me and go find another able-bodied.
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It seems that, temporarily, able-bodied people make a virtue of their sudden awareness of disabled athletes.
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Fortunately, while there are many opportunities for young able-bodied Americans, many have a desire to serve.
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Cranston, an able-bodied actor, has been sharply criticized for accepting the role of a disabled character.
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I am able-bodied and relatively young, and I live close to subway stations and bus stops.
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For Virginia, that means 22019,000 able-bodied adults could enroll—179,000 more than state officials have predicted.
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But the requirement raises questions, for instance, whether a fitness requirement like this prioritizes able-bodied students.
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One is that nearly every able-bodied batsman will be in the best shape of his life.
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In sports, you are going to see amputees with prosthetics who run faster than able-bodied humans.
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To get to the Olympic Games, Strong must change his schedule to focus on able-bodied events.
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I appreciate that I'm able-bodied and I get to move around the world with that privilege.
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An able-bodied person doesn't get jolted awake by electric shocks every 20 minutes the entire night.
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They often favor able-bodied young people — or anyone who can use gear like stand-up paddleboards.
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You could imagine any of these able-bodied young brawlers being a deadly weapon all by himself.
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These are the able-bodied adults who have moved to the front of the line under ObamaCare.
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" "Very low-income, able-bodied parents who aren't already working or caring for a child under 1.
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But for anyone not white, cis, able-bodied, or male, it's obvious where all this is going.
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According to the USDA, the average monthly benefit for an able-bodied adult without dependents is $163.
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And it created unstable nations with broken family units and weakened economies that lacked able-bodied workforces.
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An altruistic and able-bodied woman hefts the fearful one onto her back, and away they go.
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What modifications might be necessary to make those places workable for the disabled and able bodied alike?
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Mr. Azar defended a budget proposal to impose work requirements on able-bodied adults enrolled in Medicaid.
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Why would we not believe that the same is true for working-age, able-bodied Medicaid enrollees?
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The country will go bankrupt because other countries will be making sure their workforce is able-bodied.
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Callahan has accomplished more athletically than most able-bodied folks, but don't tell her she's an inspiration.
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In a study conducted by the company, 42 percent of people in the research said they believe that those with physical disabilities are unable to perform most jobs done by able-bodied individuals, become physically fit, be as productive as able-bodied people and become world-class athletes.
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Here in Garango, all our husbands have taken a second able-bodied wife, to do what we can't.
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All able-bodied Muslims who have the means are expected to make the pilgrimage once in their lifetimes.
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You don't live in a meritocracy if all the gatekeepers are predominately, Anglo able-bodied heterosexual cisgender men.
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As an able-bodied Japanese man, he has the privilege of taking what he wants from the itako.
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For instance, it's estimated that 95% of characters with disabilities on TV are played by able-bodied actors.
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Poor, able-bodied adults could rarely enroll, whether they were a refugee or born in the United States.
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The tribunal said he set out to kill "every able-bodied male" and systematically exterminate the Bosnian Muslim.
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Multiple Republican elected officials have argued this expansion has enabled too many able-bodied people to receive Medicaid.
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Using Medicaid "as a vehicle to serve working age, able-bodied adults does not make sense," Verma said.
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The state is also proposing to impose a five-year lifetime limit on Medicaid for "able-bodied" people.
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Nationwide, more than twice as many able-bodied adults have enrolled in the Medicaid expansion than ever expected.
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Some Republicans have objected, claiming that the program is too costly and provides coverage for "able-bodied" people.
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The current request would require able-bodied adults without dependents to work at least 20 hours a week.
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In the last 2900 years, the number of able-bodied adults on Medicaid has quadrupled to 220006 million.
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But the faulty assumption lurking behind work requirements is that able-bodied adults on assistance programs aren't working.
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Attendance is a religious duty, once in a lifetime, for every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it.
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Workers with disabilities are paid according to their productivity as compared to a well-trained able-bodied worker.
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One way is to test the worker's speed at completing a task compared to an able-bodied person.
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He has played wheelchair tennis, basketball and softball and currently teaches basketball to able-bodied preschoolers and kindergartners.
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Those who are able-bodied adults and who are also temporarily unemployed are mostly actively looking for work.
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What advice would she offer a young, able-bodied woman considering a relationship with a disabled young man?
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Mr. Azar told Congress that states should be allowed to impose work requirements on able-bodied Medicaid beneficiaries.
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"Societal expectations of disabled people are that we need able-bodied people's help to do things," he said.
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Yet in none of these representations does Ms. Kahlo appear as anything other than an able-bodied woman.
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Citing a strong job market, the Trump administration has said helping able-bodied adults was no longer necessary.
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As I find so often when I'm out with able-bodied companions, "right here" keeps moving further away.
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An equitable society, similarly, will provide crutches and wheelchairs to disabled people but not to able-bodied ones.
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An equitable society, similarly, will provide crutches and wheelchairs to disabled people but not to able-bodied ones.
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For MRAs, it's able-bodied, white, cis, heterosexual men using civil rights legislation — which is enacted to walk back the country's history of viewing the rights of able-bodied, white, cis, heterosexual men as more important than others — to penalize the very kinds of people these laws were meant to protect.
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Conservative-leaning members have been especially irked since Obamacare expanded Medicaid to 11 million able-bodied adults without children.
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One change that House leaders are considering is adding a work requirement for able-bodied adults who receive Medicaid.
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China's success so far has been based largely on economic growth, which has generated jobs for the able-bodied.
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Medicaid expansion critics have also objected to the idea of providing coverage to able-bodied adults who can work.
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It's not hard to understand why hundreds of able-bodied athletes will run this Sunday as guides for Achilles.
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They probably didn't expect a Gizmodo article directing every able-bodied nerd to their tiny town, now did they?
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Millions more discouraged, able-bodied workers faced with shrinking job options have left the work force, apparently for good.
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No special roundtables to discuss how best to write about straight people or cis people or able-bodied people.
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But when you add disability into it, there's this, 'oh, why wouldn't you want to be more able-bodied?
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The army comes calling for all able-bodied youth to sign up, and Bharat answers the call of duty.
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As a result of the ACA, 220006 states have expanded this coverage to low-income able-bodied childless adults.
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Though Medicaid was intended to provide medical needs of the unable, ObamaCare mandated health insurance for able-bodied adults.
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"I'd watch people with arms shoot and I would visualize that I was an able-bodied person," he recalls.
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If the AHCA were to become law, ObamaCare's expansion of Medicaid to cover able-bodied, childless adults will remain.
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But today, just two years after enrollment began, more than 6900,2628 able-bodied adults are enrolled in the expansion.
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The resulting colonial militia laws required every able-bodied male citizen to participate and to provide his own arms.
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By enacting these reforms, Ohio lawmakers are providing able-bodied adults on welfare a new path out of dependency.
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South Korea is one the few countries in the world that has compulsory conscription for all able-bodied men.
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Trump officials argue that "able-bodied" people in the program should be working to lift themselves out of poverty.
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The bill also significantly curtails federal support for Medicaid and allows states to require able-bodied adults to work.
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Are you white, cis, a man, able-bodied, straight, or otherwise someone who occupies a privileged role in society?
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These essays make up a dialogue about being disabled in an able-bodied world that arose from their friendship.
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Advancements in technology and investments in resources have guaranteed paralympic athletes the same opportunities that able-bodied athletes receive.
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Phil Bryant of Mississippi, a Republican, said he supported a "work force requirement" for able-bodied adults on Medicaid.
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Today, as a result of ObamaCare, some state programs have added able-bodied individuals without dependents to their programs.
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On Tuesday, the Trump administration reaffirmed its commitment to move millions of able-bodied adults from welfare to work.
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DeGrom (3.80 E.R.A.) is the best able-bodied Mets starter now but has piled up unusually high walk totals.
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"Japanese politics is still centred around able-bodied men," says Jun Ishikawa, head of a government commission on disabilities.
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The measure demands that able-bodied adults without children or other dependents fulfill specific work requirements to receive benefits.
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Medicaid services to the disabled have been cut or severely delayed as ObamaCare directs resources to able-bodied individuals.
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In 2018, there were 2.9 million single, able-bodied working adults who received SNAP benefits, according to the USDA.
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And if an able-bodied male in his 20s was not enrolled in college, he was immediately draft fodder.
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A big part of it is a town where all the able-bodied men have died in a mine.
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With the exception of theaters like Deaf West, Theater Breaking Through Barriers and the Apothetae (founded by Mr. Mozgala) — created in part to provide opportunities for artists with disabilities — and companies like the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, which has committed to integrating disabled actors, most able-bodied roles go to able-bodied actors.
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The scandal comes ahead of the singer's mandatory military services, which all able-bodied men in South Korea must complete.
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The court called him "the architect of destruction" who directed his forces to systematically kill "every able-bodied" Muslim male.
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"I think it's that probably people assume once you're diagnosed, you're no longer an able-bodied individual," he told CBS.
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"Lynching is wrong no matter whether someone is white or black, gay or straight, disabled or able-bodied," Staver says.
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And disabled travellers tend to spend more than their able-bodied counterparts, often travelling with a carer, family or friends.
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Yet, here she is, reimagined as a thin, unibrow-less and able-bodied figurine selling online for $29.99 a pop.
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Overall, the invisibility of white, cis, heterosexual, able-bodied women pales in comparison to that of all other marginalized identities.
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The bill would also significantly curtail federal support for Medicaid and allow states to require able-bodied adults to work.
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On work requirements, it would mandate work for able-bodied welfare recipients and double working tax credits for childless filers.
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Using Medicaid "as a vehicle to serve working age, able-bodied adults does not make sense," Verma said in November.
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To appease conservatives, states would have the option of implementing work requirements for able-bodied adults without children or dependents.
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My relationship with her has made me realize that I don't need someone who is able-bodied to be happy.
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The people who are bearing the brunt of the budget cuts are known as ABAWDs: able-bodied adults without dependents.
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Kentucky's waiver also imposes premiums on able-bodied, adult Medicaid beneficiaries - another first for the key social safety net program.
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So certain people drop off, and it's not necessarily correlated with whether they're able bodied or whatever else they're doing.
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A new rule would have forced able-bodied adults without dependents to work in order to be eligible for SNAP.
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The gay pride movement of the '80s was full of able-bodied young men, many of them with good jobs.
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In Kansas, implementing work requirements for able-bodied, childless adults effectively cut the state's food stamp caseload by three-quarters.
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In Maine, income rose by 2202 percent, just a single year after reissuing work requirements for childless, able-bodied adults.
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It was an image far more humble than that of the world-class athlete who successfully challenged able-bodied athletes.
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The last time it was lower was back in 1969 when many able-bodied working men were fighting in Vietnam.
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He sank into a depression, and encouraged Greenleaf to find an able-bodied pastor, a request that the church rejected.
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Every able-bodied Tangierman who heard it took to the sea to save them, despite the water's life-threatening conditions.
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Why would we choose to spend resources on able-bodied adults instead of on those who truly need our help?
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After realising how the creative industries exclude those who aren't able-bodied, I created my own queer feminist zine, Polyester.
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Anyone able -bodied and willing (and in some cases, we were quietly told, unwilling) was off fighting on the frontlines.
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It can be quite difficult to get into a tiny house loft, especially for people who are not able-bodied.
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The Coach Sauer Foundation, established after his death, will provide equipment or financial assistance to disabled or able-bodied players.
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The seas Ms. Lister conquered are known for mercurial weather and conditions that are arduous even for able-bodied sailors.
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Unfortunately, "more than 4,000 able-bodied adults immediately returned to the program once the work requirement was paused," Eardley said.
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Around 413 million people access the food-stamp program each year, nearly 241 million of them able-bodied, without children.
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We have many able-bodied citizens who could afford to purchase insurance, especially younger people, who do not buy insurance.
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Nearly 28 million able-bodied adults are now dependent on the program, up from fewer than seven million in 2000.
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It's time the federal government give states better incentives that will encourage able-bodied people to reenter the job market.
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Several Republican governors have expressed interest in imposing such requirements on certain Medicaid beneficiaries — able-bodied adults without minor children.
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The company, which has been around since 1979, stages productions using actors with disabilities as well as able-bodied actors.
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Services to the disabled and the elderly have been cut or delayed as the able-bodied population piles onto Medicaid.
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A new IAAF ruling requires amputee competitors to prove themselves they do not have an advantage over able-bodied athletes.
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She believes that embracing your body—for both able-bodied people and those with disabilities—is key to feeling sexy.
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It's telling the disability community that they need to conform to the able-bodied world instead of the other way around.
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Currently, able-bodied adults ages 18-49 without children are required to work 20 hours a week to maintain their benefits.
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The streets were once flooded with able-bodied men, who drastically outnumbered the woman residents, but now, the boom is over.
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Building muscle is easier for some individuals than others, but any able-bodied individual can learn to do a pull-up.
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" As the group discusses ability status, Stroker explains that, because she uses a chair to get around, "I'm not able-bodied.
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When you talk about sex and figure out what you want it's better for everybody, whether you're able-bodied or not.
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Able-bodied adult recipients would need to work, volunteer or study for a set number of hours to keep their coverage.
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In the vision of Madison, it would be states leading their militias, the militias consisting of the able-bodied male population.
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The scandal comes ahead of the singer's mandatory military service, which all able-bodied South Korean men are required to complete.
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"My parents really, really don't like seeing smart, able-bodied people not perform to the best of their abilities," he said.
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Able-bodied men and women were brought to training camps, formed into an armed militia, and sent back to fight ISIS .
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"For this population, for able-bodied adults, we should celebrate helping people move up, move on, and move out," she said.
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Instead of providing relief to these truly needy individuals, ObamaCare's expansion moves able-bodied adults to the front of the line.
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Back in 1938, everyone assumed that a worker with a disability was less productive than a "normal" or "able-bodied" worker.
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Ms. Sullivan, who was born without lower legs, doesn't believe that able-bodied performers should be prevented from playing the disabled.
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She consistently sees able-bodied patients coming through her door with three or more different control prescriptions, funded entirely through Medicaid.
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I was diagnosed with a degenerative disability early in life, but appeared able-bodied and mostly "fit in" — physically, at least.
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For all the concerns over which outfielders will play and where, the Mets need as many able-bodied players as possible.
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For too long, Washington, D.C. has encouraged states to extend food stamps and expand Medicaid to ever more able-bodied adults.
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However, they overestimate work participation among able-bodied food stamp recipients and underestimate the abuse of work requirements waivers by states.
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The waiver would require able-bodied adults without dependents to work at least 20 hours a week to qualify for coverage.
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As a result, nearly half of able bodied recipients of temporary assistance for needy families in a typical state are idle.
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You're friends with everyone in class, and you don't care what color they are or whether or not they're able-bodied.
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Our frustration, while a foreign language to all of our able-bodied friends, arose from a deeper desire that we shared.
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However well intentioned, the able-bodied wrestler chose segregation by laying down for his opponent rather than giving him his best.
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Effectively, U.S. immigration policy into the 1920s said that if you were a white, able-bodied man, the border was open.
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He will need to rise through the ranks within the able-bodied divisions, from regionals to nationals to World Cup events.
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Kentucky's proposed plan applies only to "'able-bodied' working age adults," not including students and caregivers, per the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Under the new rules, states will have a harder time waiving work requirements for able-bodied adults in high unemployment areas.
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In developing your response, consider the following questions: Should all able-bodied Americans be required to work to receive food stamps?
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Within just one year, able-bodied adults studied in the report saw their incomes rise by an average of 2900 percent.
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"Since then all of them have the confidence now that they can even do better than the able bodied," he said.
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USDA recently finalized changes to SNAP that will apply to recipients who are able-bodied adults without children or other dependents.
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In adding thousands of able-bodied, childless, working-age adults in states that accepted the expansion, Obamacare only worsened this problem.
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Required in the welfare reform of 1996, able-bodied recipients were expected to go to work if there was a job.
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If making it a requirement for government aid, and the person is able bodied, it is imperative that it be supported.
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Disabled Ohioans wait for the care they need while nearly three-quarter of a million able-bodied adults get "free" welfare.
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That means Medicaid needs to be preserved for the poor and disabled, but with stricter requirements that able-bodied people work.
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And Mr. Gold's staging leaves no doubt that Ms. Ferris is not some able-bodied actress pretending to have a disability.
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Still, I continued to rely on the myth that being married to an able-bodied man meant I wasn't truly disabled.
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There are now about 28 million able-bodied people enrolled in Medicaid, roughly four times more than there were in 2000.
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"If you're on food stamps and you're able-bodied, we need you to go to work," Mulvaney said at the time.
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Kentucky, for example, will require able-bodied adults to complete 80 hours a month of community engagement to qualify for coverage.
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The shoot features actors Cléo Pires and Paulo Vilhena, both of whom are able-bodied ambassadors for the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB).
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This contrasts the typical image of tech that has been criticized in recent years for being overwhelmingly white, male, and able-bodied.
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How long before the able-bodied begin to exploit these enhancements to augment their own competitive advantage in an increasingly crowded world?
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They want work requirements for people on Medicaid, measures to limit new enrollment by "able-bodied adults," and more flexibility for states.
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The term "able-bodied" has historically been used to arbitrarily separate the people lawmakers feel are, and aren't, deserving of public assistance.
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Taste of Cherry's subject is a man who wants to die, looking for able-bodied passengers to help him do the deed.
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For the able-bodied, luxury is waking up every day with two hands, two feet, and enough fingers to hold a pen.
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The state will require able-bodied adults without dependents to do 2628 hours a month of community engagement to qualify for coverage.
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Why should able-bodied actors have the privilege to move between worlds, when that same allowance is never extended to disabled actors?
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Republicans have been pushing for the change since the Affordable Care Act added millions of so called "able-bodied" adults to Medicaid.
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Every able-bodied Muslim who has the means should perform the haj at least once in their lifetime under a quota system.
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I am able-bodied and live in one of the largest cities in the world, so quitting Amazon is arguably a privilege.
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Sheppard believes such questions stem from able-bodied audience members who think having a disability is inextricably linked with being physically limited.
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I want a world where the social relations I forge with those who are able-bodied are not predicated on my disability.
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We are very concerned that it will lead to out-of-control spending and create a welfare trap for able-bodied adults.
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So every minute of my life when it's told by an able-bodied person, and that's not the whole story about me.
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When it comes to athletes with visual impairments, she said, "there's no question whatsoever" that they can participate in able-bodied competitions.
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For all the resources USA Hockey invests in developing able-bodied goaltenders, it had lagged on the sled hockey side until recently.
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Republican lawmakers who have demonized the program as welfare for "able-bodied adults" have long sought to require Medicaid beneficiaries to work.
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Every action you take consumes one spoon, but because you are healthy and able-bodied, with unlimited spoons, it's no big deal.
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Disability is always seen as a misfortune, and disabled characters are simply opportunities to demonstrate the kindness of the able-bodied protagonists.
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It's the administration's latest move to reconfigure Medicaid to discourage enrollment by able-bodied adults and prioritize care for the most vulnerable.
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Total Medicaid spending has nearly tripled since 2000 and spending on able-bodied adults has increased by a jaw-dropping 85033 percent.
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When they do, many times they're snapped up by able-bodied actors that directors believe will bring people to the box office.
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For a while, I was the only able-bodied adult, getting ski boots on and off, shepherding the kids to their lessons.
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Bevin said many of the newly eligible are able-bodied, and said they had a moral responsibility to work for their benefits.
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Matt Bevin (R) said the requirements are necessary because "able-bodied people" are essentially getting free health coverage without contributing to society.
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So if work requirements already exist, and most able-bodied adults are working…why are we still talking about stronger work requirements?
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Ninety percent of American voters support the idea that able-bodied adults should have to work, train, or volunteer to receive welfare benefits.
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Australia finished the track cycling with 10 gold medals in the able-bodied events, with Scotland and New Zealand taking two titles each.
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The haj, a journey every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it must perform once in a lifetime, can be a profound experience.
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An able-bodied representative from Harvard was on-hand at the event, demonstrating how the system automatically adjusts when walking at different speeds.
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Instead, work requirements focus on "able-bodied" adults who aren't working — which, for a program like Medicaid, is a tiny portion of recipients.
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Thanks to pop culture and films like Suffragette (2015), most people believe that the suffragettes were mainly straight, white, and able-bodied women.
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That also didn't factor in the pool of directors, producers, and writers who still come from a white, straight, and able-bodied bias.
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"Adding disabled people, bringing them to the table, it may look different from the workflow than with an able-bodied person," Adame said.
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White women are talking with women of color, cis women are talking with transgender women, disabled women are talking to able-bodied women.
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Using Medicaid to cover able-bodied adults "does not make sense," CMS Administrator Seema Verma said in a recent speech previewing this policy.
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Why use the category "white, male, able-bodied people from elite schools," and what share of their applicants meets all of those descriptions?
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The Medicaid program was originally created to assist the disabled and elderly but has grown to cover impoverished children and able-bodied adults.
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These are long-overdue, commonsense reforms that will help rein in out-of-control waivers and get able-bodied adults back to work.
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I'm a cis, straight, white, able-bodied woman, and even with that laundry list of privilege, body neutrality is a life-changing concept.
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The decision regarding assisted suicide, advocates say, suggests that a disabled person's life has less value or meaning than an able-bodied person.
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Many assume that the average Medicaid beneficiary is an able-bodied adult, but the true picture of a Medicaid recipient is quite different.
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Many of these states are targeting the expansion population -- often able-bodied, working age adults without dependent children -- in their work-requirement waivers.
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States can get permission from the federal government to exempt able-bodied, childless adults from work requirements if they qualify for work waivers.
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Each exemption is worth one month of free benefits for an able-bodied enrollee, exempting them from the work requirement for that month.
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Whether you're into comedy, drama, or tearjerkers, you can always make room for shows and movies that don't solely feature able-bodied characters.
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When 2017 arrived she was 123 and caring for the postwar version of her best friend — an able-bodied man without a job.
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"The truth is that Medicaid expansion will just give able-bodied adults free health care," Mr. LePage said in a recent radio address.
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Explaining disability is like speaking two languages, and it is the disabled person who is required to translate for the able-bodied world.
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So many of us really have a very harsh reaction against able-bodied or non-disabled actors playing roles as people with disabilities.
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Able-bodied is not truly a demographic label, though: There is no standard for physical or mental ability that makes a person able.
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Across centuries of use, it has consistently implied another negative: The able-bodied could work, but are not working (or working hard enough).
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Work requirements, modeled on those mandated by the 1996 welfare overhaul for able-bodied adults receiving cash assistance, are a less ambitious alternative.
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"Fellow First Responders who are willing to go in and help we need certified, capable able-bodied people to come help," it read.
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Musk, Bezos and Branson to put some of their able-bodied ventures to restoring and maintaining what remains of earth's life support system.
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During this coronavirus outbreak, healthy, able-bodied people have been important allies to more vulnerable populations and stood alongside members of these communities.
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Many of its young and able-bodied citizens have fled the country, choosing treacherous routes along the Sahara over military service at home.
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Viewing the world through Rutledge's eyes, we can't help noticing that there are very few able-bodied young men left in the village.
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But diversity advocates and other onlookers question both the social and business consequences of hiring only thin, white, able-bodied, 20-something influencers.
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"I'm very thankful that I'm young, healthy and able-bodied, so I feel compelled to help those that can't help themselves," he said.
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Accessibility is often an afterthought, and people with disabilities are expected to conform to the able-bodied world, or risk being cast aside.
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It is inconceivable to imagine an able-bodied 'name' playing this role and bringing to it even half of what Gottsagen does naturally.
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Now, with job openings outnumbering unemployed workers by the largest margins ever, no excuse remains as to why able-bodied Americans cannot work.
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As expected, the rule tightens the criteria that states must meet to get a waiver from existing work requirements for able-bodied adults.
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An analysis of 212 studies on Fitbit's movement tracking concluded that the device worked best on able-bodied adults walking at typical speeds.
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Bogus claims by pro-dependency advocacy groups can't change reality: moving able-bodied adults from welfare to work changes lives for the better.
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This would involve ending the enhanced federal match for Medicaid expansion enrollees and implementing work requirements for able-bodied adults in the program.
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After switching to a specialized prosthetic, not only was Harmon more comfortable on the snowboard, she soon was excelling past able-bodied riders.
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Specifically, able-bodied adults are now pitted against traditional Medicaid populations – seniors, poor children and individuals with disabilities – to compete for limited resources.
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At the time of the American Revolutionary War, militias were groups of able-bodied men who protected their towns, colonies, and eventually states.
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A continued rise would repudiate all those stories about how aging caused able-bodied men and women to drop out of the workforce.
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"Able-bodied adults cannot be kept on the sidelines while we witness historically low unemployment and a record-high seven million open jobs."
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Fueled by the ObamaCare expansion to able-bodied people with small medical care needs, 2016 Medicaid managed care spending was over $236 billion.
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More than twice as many able-bodied adults have signed up as states thought ever possible, leading to massive and growing cost overruns.
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ObamaCare expansion has unleashed a fiscal nightmare on taxpayers and prioritized welfare for able-bodied adults ahead of services for the truly needy.
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Perdue's proposed USDA rule is a farm-bill workaround, and it takes aim at "able-bodied adults without dependents," ages 18 to 49.
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This Medicaid expansion would give "free" health care to able-bodied adults who can work and contribute to their own health insurance costs.
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That requires a few myths about older workers to be tackled; mainly that they are less able-bodied, inventive and productive than the young.
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One addition would give states the option of requiring able-bodied Medicaid recipients to work, participate in job training programs or do community service.
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In some areas emergency rescue services have called for all able-bodied men to help out putting the wildfires that have raged this week.
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And I don't think we were trying to present the idea that quadriplegia is this hellish situation that only being able-bodied can cure.
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Nichols and her fellow athletes train their hardest every day to wipe out this misconception among able-bodied people and people with disabilities alike.
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The plan would be narrowly targeted and would mostly apply to people who are able-bodied, without dependents, and applying for some specialized jobs.
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With fewer children relative to the adult population, but still not many retirees to look after, it becomes a nation of able-bodied workers.
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"Wisconsin Works for Everyone" stems from a 2015 Walker pilot program that added work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents receiving food stamps.
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Where Sanders guaranteed coverage to everyone, including unauthorized immigrants, Portman restricts it to legal residents, and adds a work requirement for able-bodied adults.
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Or when you've got kids at home who need you to stay alive and able-bodied because they rely on you for health insurance.
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After claiming a silver medal during the London 2012 Paralympic Games, Browne is ready to compete with able-bodied athletes in this summer's events.
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They'll argue that people have a duty to stay fit, and if they're not able-bodied, it's their job to overcome obstacles to success.
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Why it matters: Work requirements are a way to pare back Medicaid coverage, allowing states to remove some able-bodied adults from their rolls.
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If that was true for me, how were my elderly neighbors, some of whom are less tech savvy and able-bodied, supposed to fare?
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Lawmakers say they haven't worked out how they'll define who is an "able-bodied" adult, so they could exempt certain populations from the requirement.
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Ohio's legislative leadership should be commended for their role in reducing the damage caused by ObamaCare and help more able-bodied adults escape dependency.
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Along with able-bodied people, the source said the proposal would target people without dependents who are seeking certain specialized jobs, the AP reported.
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Additionally, Walker said the RSC is pushing for the next spending bill to have "mandatory reforms" like work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid beneficiaries.
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" Conway went on: "If they are able-bodied and they want to work, then they'll have employer-sponsored benefits like you and I do.
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Indeed, the 85033 bipartisan federal welfare reform requiring work-related community engagement for able-bodied adults helped move 10 million people off the program.
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As Congress and the president consider reform policies, Medicaid reimbursement rates for the elderly, indigent poor, and able-bodied adults needs to be reconciled.
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There has been overuse of waivers that allow able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWD) to receive food stamps even without meeting basic work requirements.
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Characters with disabilities got to be the stars of their film, rather than having their story told from the perspective of the able-bodied.
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Though I do meet some of society's standards of attractiveness (I'm white, able-bodied, cisgendered, and relatively thin), The Ugly Conference calls to me.
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Kentucky, for instance, has outlined a number of exemptions to its new requirements that able-bodied Medicaid beneficiaries must work and pay small premiums.
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"Since implementing work requirements and time limits, the number of able-bodied adults on food stamps has dropped by 75 percent," the report said.
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My intent here is not, necessarily, to advocate that healthy and able-bodied people ought to be granted the right to physician-assisted suicide.
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Able-bodied adults should have to prove that they are working, or trying to find work, before they receive food assistance from the government.
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On Tuesday, Mr. Mulvaney cheerfully dispatched the question of what he'd tell an able-bodied American who wants work but simply can't find any.
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Or we may ask why, of the vast multicultural population of pre-apocalyptic Britain, only straight, white, able-bodied people appear to have survived.
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Medicaid work requirement waivers will simply expand that policy to a larger group of able-bodied adults and could usher millions back to work.
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In 2202, the Brownback administration strengthened sanctions for able-bodied adults who refused to comply with work requirements in the TANF cash assistance program.
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It's something only a financially successful, conventionally attractive, heterosexual, able-bodied white man born with nothing standing in his way except himself could believe.
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This year, state officials chose not to apply for an extension of that waiver, and "able-bodied adults" got new rules, Ms. Orlansky said.
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Cycling able-bodied adults into self-sufficiency would be sped up even further when coupled with other proven reforms like work requirements for welfare.
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The Kasich administration promised that the program would not exceed 2628,28503 able-bodied, working-age adults; as of last month, enrollment has surpassed 22019,000.
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The Department of Agriculture (USDA) said about 2628 million of the 28503 million people who participate in SNAP are able-bodied adults without dependents.
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"We're moving on to workforce development to make sure that people who are able-bodied and on welfare actually go to work," Ryan said.
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And among the able-bodied adults without dependents — the contingent of the population subject to work requirements — most already work or are seeking work.
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Let's not restigmatize Medicaid for our kids, people with disabilities and seniors by imposing work requirements on a limited number of able-bodied individuals.
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The elderly themselves would still be in an able-bodied state and able to actually contribute wealth to society rather than just consuming wealth.
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President Trump signed an executive order in April designed to help rein in public assistance spending – including Medicaid – for able-bodied people with low incomes.
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Actress Katy Sullivan, a double amputee, criticized Johnson in an open letter along with other stars who are "able-bodied" and have portrayed disabled roles.
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However, a recent International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ruling requires amputee competitors to prove they do not have an advantage over able-bodied athletes.
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The bill also significantly restructures Medicaid and allows states to require able-bodied adults to work if they want to be eligible for the program.
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The bill also significantly restructures Medicaid and allows states to require able bodied adults to work if they want to be eligible for the program.
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The tightening of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will make it much harder for able-bodied adults with no dependents to qualify for the benefit.
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"Performers with disabilities [are] being sidelined so that able-bodied actors can 'play at' what it's like to live life with a disability," she said.
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All Democrats and some Republicans balked at the bill due to a provision to bolster work requirements for able-bodied persons to receive food aid.
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Diversity reports are just a first step on a very long journey to disrupting this straight, white, able-bodied, able-minded, male-dominated tech industry.
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And yet, while Arkansas signs up as many able-bodied adults as they can for its ObamaCare Medicaid expansion, Skylar has been forced to wait.
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The reality of caring for a SWAN child is a world away from that of a mom with healthy and able-bodied kids, she adds.
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Work requirements would get able-bodied people off the rolls, and closer scrutiny would ensure that people receiving disability help were truly disabled, he said.
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Arizona and Maine have both used enrollment freezes to wind down earlier Medicaid expansions to able-bodied adults after the programs faced massive cost overruns.
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In the past, these were organizations of all or most able-bodied men that states and the federal government armed for security and law enforcement.
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"It is REALLY hard to get around the city with children, even as an able-bodied person, particularly with multiple children," one survey respondent wrote.
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Within this group, the number of able-bodied people who willfully choose not to work so they can receive welfare is likely small as well.
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But by gerrymandering the counties to create a single "area," Illinois has been able to exempt 2628,28503 able-bodied, childless adults from the work requirement.
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ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion launched less than three years ago, but states have already signed up more able-bodied adults than they ever expected to enroll.
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The non-pregnant, able-bodied individuals under age 65 who qualify for Medicaid can only earn up to 41 percent of the federal poverty level.
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Work requirements are a powerful tool that can move thousands of able-bodied adults in Ohio and elsewhere out of dependency and into self-sufficiency.
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But one thing Warusam does remember is how difficult losing almost every able-bodied man in the Torres Strait was for the island chain's women.
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When we put work requirements and other measures in place for able-bodied recipients of government assistance, enrollment in dependency programs fell by 2628 percent.
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" As Jonathan Cohn points out in the Huffington Post, however, Conway's reasoning is faulty: "The majority of able-bodied adults on Medicaid already have jobs.
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These include work requirements for able-bodied, childless Medicaid recipients, said Representative Mark Walker, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the largest House conservative group.
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Until the middle of the Obama presidency, people on food stamps were required to work if they were able bodied and a job was available.
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Then again, these women (there are a few men, but only a few) are overwhelmingly white, able-bodied, and beautiful, and so are their children.
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LePage, who can't run next year because of term limits, blasted the election results as giving "free" health care to working age, able-bodied adults.
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These so-called able-bodied are defined in many ways by what they are not: not disabled, not elderly, not children, not pregnant, not blind.
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But, Mr. Salo said, "we have a lot of disagreement" with the contention that Medicaid should not be serving able-bodied adults of working age.
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In July, a coterie of able-bodied men lift and carry the ceremonial spire — the giglio — in a classic New York City Catholic street feast.
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For the first time in 10 years, I realized an able-bodied person doesn't experience pain so intense it hinders their swallowing or breathing reflex.
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In 2011, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback instituted new sanctions in his state's cash assistance program for able-bodied adults who refused to meet work requirements.
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Some states, like Connecticut, even cut back on benefits for traditional Medicaid patients in order to pay for the expansion to able-bodied, childless adults.
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The work or vocational training requirement applies to recipients who are "able-bodied" or who are not caring for a child under 85033 years old.
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Every dollar that goes to fund welfare for an able-bodied adult is a dollar that cannot go to provide services to the truly needy.
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The main conduits of direct cash are disability payments and Social Security for the elderly which, by definition, do not go to able-bodied adults.
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The 21625-member RSC wants to freeze the expansion of Medicaid earlier, in 2900, and put in place work requirements for able-bodied, childless adults.
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Instead of taking care of these individuals who truly need help first, expansion states have moved able-bodied adults to the front of the line.
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Shane has a condition called spinal muscular atrophy, a type of muscular dystrophy that means his muscles are incredibly weak, while Hannah is able-bodied.
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But things he'd taken for granted as an able-bodied director — standing on set during shooting, quickly conveying changes to actors — were now formidable obstacles.
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" Governor McMaster echoed that sentiment: "In this economy," he said in a statement, "there is no excuse for the able-bodied not to be working.
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Unfortunately, the majority of able-bodied men and women on food stamps across America are not working even during a time of record-low unemployment.
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CMS officials emphasized that the work requirements would only apply to "able-bodied" adults, and has exemptions for children, the elderly, and people with disabilities.
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The Oregon Health Experiment showed that Medicaid coverage for able-bodied people increases health spending by 2023 percent without improving common clinical measures of health.
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The USDA reported in 2016 that about 2.8 million able-bodied food stamp recipients without kids or people in their care weren't working in 2016.
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" Able-bodied people also don't always grasp how people with disabilities have sex, Wilson-Beattie said, because they think of "sex" as "penis-in-vagina.
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Officials said they would support efforts to require able-bodied adults to participate in work or other "community engagement activities" as a condition of eligibility.
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But it only preserved the collective right to own firearms insofar as able-bodied men needed the weapons to help defend their state and country.
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As soon as the call came through to Vík's ICE-SAR unit, all of the village's able-bodied search and rescue members mobilized—including Reynir.
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"It's an element of individual responsibility that if you're able-bodied … you should be contributing in some fashion," Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson said in an interview.
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Under Obama, some states wanted to introduce work requirements to Medicaid that would force able-bodied recipients to work or prove they are actively seeking employment.
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But before we can go any further, let's at least acknowledge that most able-bodied adults don't need straws, and that using them is mildly ridiculous.
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Their voices add to a growing chorus of current and former military leaders who believe the ban will harm the military by expelling able-bodied troops.
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In fact, the various devices and ways of moving the body in space are likely more familiar to people with disabilities than to able-bodied people.
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It ended quickly, the "Thank you, we'll be in touch" brush off coming much sooner than it had when he auditioned as an able bodied actor.
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Kentucky's requirements mandate that able-bodied Medicaid recipients participate in at least 80 hours a month of "employment activities," including job training, education and community service.
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The application also says an automatic stand may remove the danger of an able bodied rider falling if a foot or feet are stuck in place.
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Now, states have more freedom to choose that option, and will also have the right to require able-bodied Medicaid recipients to work if they choose.
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"We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency," Ryan said in 2012.
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The ACA fundamentally changed Medicaid from a safety net program for these vulnerable populations to a comprehensive, traditional health care plan for working, able-bodied adults.
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The 1996 reforms already bar able-bodied adults without children from receiving food stamps while unemployed for more than three months in any three-year period.
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In addition, House Republicans would allow states to establish work requirements for able-bodied adults on Medicaid, requirements that the Obama administration has refused to permit.
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Part of the conservative argument against the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion was that it discourages "able-bodied" people from working because it provides free healthcare.
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Agriculture Department: The Trump administration said Thursday it wants to tighten food stamp restrictions for some able-bodied Americans through an administrative action rather than legislation.
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Instead of draining taxpayers, these able-bodied adults are now productive members of their communities and adding tens of millions of dollars to the local economy.
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State and national enrollment estimates have been dangerously inaccurate, as expansion states have enrolled more than double the number of able-bodied adults than ever expected.
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The perverse funding structure of expansion actually prioritizes able-bodied adults over the truly needy, threatening resources and care for those who need it the most.
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Approximately 10 other states have either submitted or are working to submit waivers that would establish work or education conditions for able-bodied adults receiving benefits.
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"We're going to take on welfare reform, which is another big entitlement program, where we're basically paying people -- able-bodied people -- not to work," Ryan said.
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Five states have already asked the Trump administration for approval to require certain "able-bodied" Medicaid beneficiaries to work in order to be eligible for benefits.
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Under the Farm Bill, work requirements—a minimum of 20 hours of work or job training to receive benefits—are expanded to more able-bodied adults.
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Throughout the years, we have seen different versions of these actors picking up the mantle of a desirable lead: white, able-bodied, and physically fit heroes.
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Fitness gets frightful in a series of zombie runs held across the country in which the able-bodied flee flesh eaters, usually over a 5K course.
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Today, a blind person who is categorically eligible for aid could well do work that a person with depression — and who is "able-bodied" — could not.
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Yet somehow I can't see Mr. Trump and Republican allies like the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, allowing able-bodied Americans off the hook.
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Given that other European Union countries are also struggling to hire fruit pickers, the competition to hire young, able-bodied workers has become even more intense.
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But whatever Mitch McConnell, able-bodied Southern gentleman, thought, he refused to meet with them and 15 other patient groups, the March of Dimes among them.
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Since 6900, the number of people dependent on Medicaid has more than doubled and the number of able-bodied adults on the program has nearly quadrupled.
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Both countries have long had conscription for able-bodied young men – and now theoretically neutral Sweden is also reintroducing National Service for both men and women.
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Going forward, they favor legislation that would hold down spending levels for everything but defense, and they also want work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid recipients.
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She is a white, straight, cisgendered, able-bodied, middle-class woman who yearns for domesticity and beautification, and whose leisure time exists in five-minute increments.
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The public has become increasingly tired of seeing able-bodied actors snapping up rare and coveted roles for disabled characters and are making their voices heard.
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The ostensible justification — cracking down on able-bodied Medicaid recipients who should be working but aren't — is nonsense: There are very few people meeting that description.
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"For this population, for able-bodied adults, we should celebrate helping people move up, move on, and move out," she said in a speech last week.
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Like ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion, the AHCA's "reforms" create incentives for states both to expand Medicaid to able-bodied adults while cutting benefits for the truly vulnerable.
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Kentucky, Indiana and Arkansas got the green light this year to require certain able-bodied adults to work as a condition of keeping their health benefits.
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In doing so, I've confronted my own privilege: I'm a young, white, able-bodied woman for whom the workshop and flight costs were not prohibitively expensive.
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There was another angle: If I mentioned improvement, it implied that I hated my disabled body and wished for what the able-bodied perceive as normal.
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In matters of identity, "minority" is about as axiomatic as a designation can get: There are straight, white able-bodied people, and then there's everyone else.
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For disability rights activist Kelly May Perks-Bevington, sex was a way of showing able-bodied people that she was more than her spinal muscular atrophy.
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Fleisig has become an expert on arms and elbows around baseball, with teams coming to him for advice with their own hurt or able-bodied pitchers.
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Six years later, the Londoner is 26 and happy to face that question every day—and he's living a fuller life than most able-bodied people.
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Lawmakers could add work requirements for able-bodied recipients or lump a range of programs together to give states more control over how they are administered.
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They would make additional changes to Medicaid that were pushed by conservative members, such as giving states the option of requiring able-bodied Medicaid recipients to work.
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The adult residents of Short Creek today—both those still in the FLDS and those who have left the cult—are mostly able-bodied, seemingly healthy individuals.
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The haj, a journey every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it must perform once in a lifetime, is a profound experience for those who undertake it.
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Similarly, a little more than one out of two disabled people had jobs in 2016, while four in five able-bodied people were employed, DPOD figures showed.
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In a modern sense, the organized portion of the state militia is the State National Guard, and the unorganized portion of the militia is able-bodied males.
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As a result, any able-bodied recipient not employed 85033 hours per month will need to enroll in a state job training program or risk losing benefits.
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Based on a survey of every expansion state with available data, every single state has enrolled more able-bodied adults than they expected to ever sign up.
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Pete has previously begged the court to finalize the divorce once and for all, so he can marry his current girlfriend while he's still relatively able-bodied.
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Under the current text of Graham-Cassidy, per capita allotments for childless, able-bodied adults would grow at the rate of CPI-Medical between 2020 and 85033.
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In 2015, 42 states were utilizing waivers doled out by the Obama administration that exempted the vast majority of able-bodied childless adults from commonsense work requirements.
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State data also reveals that just 1.8 million of the nearly 4.7 million able-bodied childless adults on the program in 2018 are subject to these requirements.
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Kasich unilaterally expanded the program in 28500, he projected that no more than 6900,2628 able-bodied adults would ever sign up at any point in the future.
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Until society stops holding up the hearing, able-bodied person as the "default" human, we disabled people will continue to be marginalized in and out of Hollywood.
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I wanted to use the opportunity to explore the sexual world as an able-bodied woman, if only online, and see what all the fuss was about.
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It's hard to face when you are disabled, why wouldn't it be hard to face when you are able-bodied and aware that you could become disabled?
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According to the White House, more than 16 million able-bodied adults were receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — also known as food stamps — in 21625.
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Some 6900 percent of voters support requiring that able-bodied adults either work at least part-time or participate in job training to receive food stamp benefits.
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Because I wear a prosthetic leg, does that necessarily make me less able-bodied than the other 62-year-old person walking toward me on the sidewalk?
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The realization that I wasn't a good swimmer didn't come until much later, when I tried out for my high school swim team with able-bodied students.
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Kentucky's new requirements mandate that able-bodied Medicaid recipients participate in at least 80 hours a month of "employment activities," including jobs training, education and community service.
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"I'd be shocked if, since this depends on user reports, this doesn't disproportionately affect users who are not white, cis, able bodied, slender, and feminine," Stryker said.
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When I make my life legible to an able-bodied world, all the nuance, all those contradictions, which aren't really contradictions, get sucked out of it, somehow.
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If you say 'able-bodied' enough times, you give a sense that there are people just sitting around who could work, but that's just not the case.
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"A white able-bodied man can use his privilege to interrupt and challenge door staff, for example, when someone is obviously being discriminated against," Mx. Wilson said.
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The economy will take off for all of us, by Mr. Mulvaney's rationale, when each able-bodied American embraces the civic duty to hold down a job.
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Similar marches were taking place all across the eastern front after the SS chief Heinrich Himmler ordered that all able-bodied prisoners be taken to the Reich.
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Three key results should inspire policymakers in other states and in Washington D.C. to expand work requirements to able-bodied adults in as many programs as possible.
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States already retain the option to remove able-bodied adults from Medicaid if they're also enrolled in cash assistance and refuse to meet that program's work requirement.
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While these positive changes were underway in Kansas, the opposite trends were occurring both nationally and in the region, with fewer able-bodied adults on welfare working.
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The tradition, which began with the Korean War, requires all able-bodied men between 18 and 35 to serve between 21 to 24 months in the military.
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The economy has improved under the Trump administration, the department argued, and assistance to unemployed, able-bodied adults was no longer necessary in a strong job market.
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The updated GOP proposal would repeal Medicaid expansion for able-bodied adults, but states would continue to receive the enhanced federal match rate for a limited time.
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This particular measure targets a category of SNAP recipients known as able-bodied adults without dependents, or ABAWDs—single adults that the administration believes should be working.
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Earlier this year, the Agriculture Department sought input on "innovative ideas to promote work and self-sufficiency among able-bodied adults" participating in the food stamp program.
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From some of the earliest days of the administration, Trump administration officials signaled they were open to states imposing work requirements for "able-bodied" people on Medicaid.
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President Trump and House conservatives already agreed to other changes involving Medicaid, including offering states the option of imposing a work requirement for certain able-bodied beneficiaries.
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I was once like many other able-bodied New Yorkers, only vaguely aware of subway elevators, merely noting that they seemed dingy and often out of service.
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Kentucky, Indiana, and Arkansas recently introduced work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid recipients to ensure the program has enough resources to care for those truly in need.
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CMS officials emphasized that the work requirements would only apply to "able-bodied" adults, coming with exemptions for children, the elderly, pregnant women and people with disabilities.
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Roughly half of the 210,23 able-bodied Medicaid beneficiaries in Kentucky currently do not meet the work requirements, by the government's estimates, and could lose their benefits.
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Make sure your allyship extends to all fat people, not just small fat folks, not just white fat folks, and not just able-bodied fat folks. 247.
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For instance, Kentucky last year proposed work requirements for able-bodied adults to get Medicaid insurance as well as new fees for all members based on income.
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Dynamite Kid was nimble and able-bodied, Terry Funk was coherent, and way too many others—Savage, Piper, Davey Boy Smith, Adrian Adonis, Moondog Spot—were simply alive.
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He wonders how it makes any sense that an able-bodied man with every compulsion to work must stay idle to ensure that he can support his family.
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And so I test the tensile strength of chairs, and I panic when I realize my loved ones aren't as mobile or as able-bodied as I am.
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The problem is that the growing precariat is ill-served by an economy built around the assumption that every able-bodied adult should have a full-time job.
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For their latest photo campaign to promote the games, the magazine Photoshopped two able-bodied models, Cleo Pires and Paulo Vilhena, to look like they had physical disabilities.
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By episode's end, usually "order" was restored alongside the exit of the disabled guest star, and disability itself was once again distanced from the able-bodied protagonists' lives.
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The kingdom ventures its reputation on organizing haj, a pillar of Islam which every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to is obliged to undertake at least once.
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People have been walking away from and refusing the white room, the male room, the straight room, the able-bodied room, all the rooms, for a long time.
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American society was meant to help people who are white, people who are male, people who are heterosexual, people who are able-bodied, and people who are rich.
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"Disabled people will fare better in space because disabled people have learned to negotiate hostile situations in ways that able bodied people are completely unaware of," Shew says.
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Before you tell a woman you love the confidence it takes for her to show her body, picture her as a thin, white, cis, able-bodied, young woman.
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By gerrymandering geographic "areas," the state received federal approval to waive work requirements in the majority of the state, leaving roughly 21625,2900 able-bodied adults on welfare indefinitely.
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Matt Bevin said Kentuckians want the "dignity" of being able to work, and decried that "able-bodied people" are essentially getting free medical care without contributing to society.
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If it isn't allowed to return to something resembling its original purpose then it needs to be allowed to reform itself, including work requirements for able-bodied adults.
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Illinois has enrolled more able-bodied adults than the state thought would ever even be eligible, with costs running $2 billion over budget during the first two years.
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Under the new law, able-bodied adults will need to work, enroll in school, or participate in an occupational training program in order to qualify for the program.
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States can skirt work requirements, allowing able-bodied adults to stay on welfare far longer than they should, wasting limited resources that could go to truly needy individuals.
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The current GOP health plan, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), provides perverse incentives for states to continue to expand Medicaid to able-bodied people without dependent children.
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Matt Bevin argues that state residents want the "dignity" of work, and has said that "able-bodied people" are essentially getting free care but not contributing to society.
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No Democrats support the current farm bill in large part because the bill requires able-bodied SNAP recipients without dependents to work at least 85033 hours per week.
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Reimbursing at a higher rate for able-bodied adults was designed to lure states into expanding their program in order to lower the rate of uninsured under Obamacare.
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The Farm Bill addresses this need head-on by expanding work requirements to more able-bodied adults and closing loopholes that have allowed states to bypass them altogether.
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Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, said Tuesday her agency will approve applications to add work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid expansion enrollees.
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Khan said that means she has to take far more drastic measures — no walks, no visitors, and definitely no grocery runs — than able-bodied people to stay safe.
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Khan said it's been frustrating to see people disregard social distancing when it's the least able-bodied people can do to flatten the curve and protect immunocompromised people.
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I can't begin to encapsulate it because I can't…remember the myriad of microaggressions I face even from my good, able-bodied friends and mentors in this fight.
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About 80 percent of able-bodied adult Medicaid recipients are part of working families (that is, either they or their spouses work), and about 60 percent work themselves.
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But in most cases homeowners who are able-bodied tend to believe "wheelchair accessible" means a wheelchair user can get through the front door — and that's about it.
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In April, under a rule change by the Trump administration, people all over the country who are "able-bodied adults without dependents" will have to do the same.
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And the GOP could also take a page from the House Budget Committee and call on the states to make able-bodied Medicaid recipients fulfill some work requirements.
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Unfortunately, few able-bodied adults on Medicaid work full-time jobs and most don't work at all, according to a forthcoming analysis by the Foundation for Government Accountability.
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What's more, welfare transfers for able-bodied adults under the condition of work requirements are far more effective at eliminating disincentives to work, while constraining state government profligacy.
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The newly issued guidance is targeted at working age, able-bodied adults and does not apply to most of Medicaid's traditional beneficiaries, including children, seniors or the disabled.
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He wonders how it makes any sense that an able-bodied man with every compulsion to work must stay idle to ensure that he can support his family.
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Among the able-bodied, a majority already work or attend school full time—the problem is that they work too few hours or their wages are too low.
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The law's optional expansion allowed many more low-income people to become eligible, leading to criticisms from conservatives that "able-bodied" beneficiaries were essentially freeloading off the government.
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In 2013, Oscar Pistorius — a Paralympic winner and the first double-amputee to compete against able-bodied runners in the Olympics — shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
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"There is another group of people who are able-bodied individuals, and I think we do those people a great disservice when we simply maintain them," Carson said.
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This rule lays the groundwork for the expectation that able-bodied Americans re-enter the workforce where there are currently more job openings than people to fill them.
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There will never be a reconnect between the American public and its military until a mandatory military requirement of some type is expected of all able-bodied Americans.
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The number of able-bodied adults without dependents is slim, and not nearly enough to make up the numbers in savings that the projections for this proposal indicate.
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Vogue Brazil is coming under heavy criticism for a series of photos in which able-bodied actors were digitally altered to look like they have disabilities, The Telegraph reports.
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I was impressed with her vision for ways to enact President Trump's plan to help able-bodied Medicaid recipients gain skills and self-esteem, and ultimately get off Medicaid.
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"We thought that if it worked like it did in an able bodied person, we'd just get one or two joints; we'd get a wrist—something basic," he said.
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Another fun piece of information I learned that day: Although the life expectancy of someone with CP is that of an able-bodied person, you age a decade faster.
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In other words, some amendments on "essential health benefits" regulations or the work requirement for able-bodied, working age Medicaid enrollees, might not make the cut in the Senate.
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The ability to check the news and turn on connected smart home devices is a nice luxury for able-bodied users, but could be a game changer for others.
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But things were evolving rapidly, in part thanks to World War I, which called all able-bodied men into service, and helped women take their places in the workforce.
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Central Park's frozen lake didn't just start a fad; it planted the roots of what is now considered a beloved city tradition that all able-bodied individuals can enjoy.
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Kansas must prioritize the care and service of vulnerable Kansans, addressing their health care needs in a sustainable way, not expanding a failing entitlement program to able-bodied adults.
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Why should people that are able-bodied be sitting at home getting taxpayer money when they can be out in the workforce and become part of the American dream?
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And then, God willing, we'll be able-bodied enough to see what they do and then to raise them and we continue to do it and push each other.
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A seemingly unlimited supply of able-bodied laborers could be an economic boon to the State, and household help would be accessible to all for the first time ever.
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As a result, enrollment in this welfare program ballooned to nearly 48 million late in the Obama era, and able-bodied adult enrollment alone has nearly tripled since 2000.
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As a result, demand for care services for elderly people has boomed and a shrinking working population means that fewer able-bodied adults are available to look after them.
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Under current federal guidelines, able-bodied adults between 18 and 49 years old without children are required to work 85033 hours a week in order to receive food stamps.
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Paul Ryan, the House Speaker, has warned of the dangers of turning the safety-net into "a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency".
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This, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of poor people aren't able-bodied adults electing not to work, but children, elderly, disabled, or full-time students or caregivers.
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To develop its inclusiveness index, the Haas Institute looked at how people who are not white, male, Christian, straight or able-bodied fare in society compared to the majority.
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The food stamp program needs reform: one-third of the country still lives in an area where able-bodied adults without dependents are waived from food stamp work requirements.
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The law basically said a business could pay workers with disabilities less than able-bodied workers to do menial tasks in a "workshop" environment with other workers with disabilities.
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Mr. Karadzic was found guilty of genocide for aiming to kill "every able-bodied male" in the town of Srebrenica in 1995 and to exterminate the Muslim population there.
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From sunrise to sunset all able-bodied Muslims are required to "fast"; we are prohibited from eating, drinking (yes, even water), smoking, cursing, bad-mouthing, and any sexual behavior.
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The movie is a remake of the acclaimed French hit The Intouchables, and in both the original and this American version, Lacasse is played by an able bodied actor.
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Able-bodied people between the ages of 18 and 49 who aren't raising children will have to work at least 20 hours a week to become eligible for SNAP.
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Yet with each new article or report about obesity comes rejuvenated efforts to address the "epidemic" or "crisis" that larger people like me, disabled and able-bodied alike, perpetuate.
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Federal officials said they would support state efforts to require able-bodied adults to work or participate in other "community engagement activities" as a condition of eligibility for Medicaid.
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"If you are on food stamps and you are able-bodied, we need you to go to work," the White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said early last year.
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" Cindy Mann, who was the top federal Medicaid official under Mr. Obama, said Ms. Verma's objections to Medicaid coverage of working age, able-bodied adults were "upsetting and disturbing.
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In exchange, they'd receive a fixed federal payment for able-bodied adults in the program and freedom from many of Medicaid's rules, my Washington Post colleague Amy Goldstein reports.
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Advocates say most able-bodied adults who do not already have jobs face obstacles including mental problems, criminal records that deter employers from hiring them and complicated family situations.
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Contrast these truly needy Ohioans with more than 725,000 able-bodied adults the state has enrolled in its Medicaid expansion and you'll start to see the problem more clearly.
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By rejecting ObamaCare expansion, states have saved at least 11 million able-bodied adults from welfare and will save taxpayers at least $676 billion over just the first decade.
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Specifically, conservatives want Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid to end sooner than proposed in the Ryan plan, and want to introduce Medicaid work requirements for able-bodied adults without children.
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Perhaps most importantly, Medicaid expansion created an incentive for states to prioritize signing up able-bodied adults over sicker or disabled adults who qualified for Medicaid prior to expansion.
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While SNAP already has work requirements for able-bodied adults without children, the House's proposal imposes an even harsher policy and extends it to parents of school-age children.
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The Trump administration wants hundreds of thousands of poor, able-bodied adults to work more for their food stamps, according to a federal rule proposed by the government Thursday.
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The attorneys represented South African double amputee Oscar Pistorius, winning a 2008 ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that he could race against able-bodied athletes.
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Unsurprisingly, the campaign has come under fire — mainly for using able-bodied celebrities as the face of the Paralympic Games, which has long fought for recognition equal to the Olympics.
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Professionals help for a couple of hours in the mornings and evenings, assisting Stow with the daily tasks able-bodied people take for granted: showering, using the bathroom, getting dressed.
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The atypical event, in Australia's Northern Territory, welcomes disabled athletes to compete alongside their able-bodied peers in nine days of track-and-field events, swimming, tennis and table tennis.
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How the entitlement money will be saved: The source tells me there'll be an "emphasis on work requirements for able-bodied people" to save money on these social welfare programs.
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South Korea requires all able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 35 to complete at least 21 months in the military as a deterrent to North Korean aggression.
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Walker is also seeking a waiver from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to mandate work requirements for able-bodied adults in the state housing voucher program.
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The resolution lays out structural changes to Medicaid, transforming the program largely into a block grant for states to administer and adding work requirement for able bodied adults receiving benefits.
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Now, he's ready to take it up a notch by attempted to break his 4×1 record at the Paralympic Games and by competing against able-bodied athletes in Rio.
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This acquisition makes a lot of sense, given that IKEA furniture, in my experience, is hard to put together and can require help from an able-bodied person via TaskRabbit.
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Under the work requirements, which were introduced in 1996, able-bodied adults without children cannot receive food stamps while unemployed for more than three months in any three-year period.
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Bill Walker unilaterally expanded Medicaid under ObamaCare, ignoring a clear statutory prohibition enacted by the legislature, he promised that no more than 2628,28500 able-bodied adults would ever sign up.
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Azar said the ruling was a "blow" to the administration's efforts to encourage work among "able-bodied" adults in the Medicaid program, but said he is "undeterred" and proceeding forward.
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Already one of the poorest states in the nation, advocates say work requirements for "able-bodied" beneficiaries could decimate the health coverage that tens of thousands of residents depend on.
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A variation of the able-bodied sport, the game is played by people with various impairments who, sitting and sliding along the floor, volley over a nearly four-foot net.
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Her crew included a highly regarded captain, an illiterate but gifted first mate, and the usual roster of harpooners, sailors, and able-bodied seamen—but not the intended ship's surgeon.
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Mr. Karadzic was convicted of genocide for the Srebrenica massacr e, which aimed to kill "every able-bodied male" in the town and systematically exterminate the Bosnian Muslim population there.
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And one out of 10 are covered by the Affordable Care Act's expansion of the program to low-income, able-bodied Americans, a common population in the Detroit metro area.
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They are on lockdown, shut into small rooms or apartments, the able-bodied with few or no direct human interactions, and the disabled restricted to care-related interactions with aides.
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How would a person who hails from a rural village where life is challenging for the able-bodied get by in a country where services for the disabled are nonexistent?
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Over time, the English came to recognize a third class: the able-bodied who were blocked from work for reasons beyond their bodies, such as a shortage of available jobs.
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Along the same theme, Mr. Trump's new budget proposal would make it harder for the so-called "able-bodied" poor who don't work to receive food stamps and public housing.
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"Mainstream vegan spaces, both online and in person, aside from being predominantly white, have been middle-class and able-bodied," said Brandie Skorker, 33, a Veggie Mijas organizer from Boston.
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He spent his time as a rifleman in the army, honoring the requirement for all able-bodied Korean men between the ages of 18 and 35 to undertake military service.
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The two films share similarities in their protagonists — once-badass, now sour, wealthy men who share an unlikely bond with their caretakers, both played by white and able-bodied men.
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Most able-bodied adults in the program don't work at all, in part because much of the country has been exempted from meaningful work requirements through waivers and carve outs.
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There are, however, some notably successful SNAP reform efforts in states that have actively enforced work requirements for able-bodied, childless adults at a minimum of 20 hours per week.
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One start-up, AgeWell, employs able-bodied older people to assist less able people of the same age, figuring the two will find a social connection that benefits overall health.
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We spoke to Madeley about Years and Years, the stereotype of able-bodied actors getting Oscars for playing characters with disabilities, and why the entertainment industry has a diversity blindspot.
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He insisted that the bill would hold Medicaid to its "original purpose" of covering the most severely vulnerable people and said too many "able-bodied adults" relied on the program.
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To most who see her, Shakeitha Perry would fit the definition of "able-bodied adult," despite the $203 in disability and $56 in food stamps that she receives each month.
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For those unaware, West Virginia isn't doing terribly well, economically and otherwise: we're the only state in the country where less than half of able-bodied adults have a job.
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As part of their decision-making process, virtually every state created projections for how many able-bodied adults would sign up for the expansion and how much it would cost.
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Some states want to provide a less generous, less expensive package of benefits, or require some able-bodied adults to engage in work activities as a condition of receiving Medicaid.
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We really, really think, pretty deeply in this country, that able-bodied adults should work, and should take care of themselves, and that that's the best path out of poverty.
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The able-bodied tourist might be able to follow a crowd up a flight of stairs, or find a staircase that leads to a subway line and then a street exit.
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It's all too common that we see characters with disabilities played by able-bodied actors (and of course, far too many white people have acted in roles for people of color).
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At first glance, it appears that Coral and her ilk are following in that same tradition: After all, most popular female WeedTubers are, like Coral, young, able-bodied, and conventionally attractive.
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What Trump's budget promises We must reform our welfare system so that it does not discourage able-bodied adults from working, which takes away scarce resources from those in real need.
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There are legitimate reasons why an able-bodied person can't find work, like having child care or elder care responsibilities, undiagnosed mental illness, a lack of skills, or a criminal record.
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Ryan also said Republicans were working on changes that would allow federal block grants to states for Medicaid and permit states to impose a work requirement for able-bodied Medicaid recipients.
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Between 2 million and 3 million Muslims travel to Mecca each year for the pilgrimage - which every able-bodied Muslim has a duty to undertake at least once in their lifetime.
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There, since the state chose to expand Medicaid to able-bodied adults, 2202 members of the waiting list have died and 2628 more truly needy individuals are now on the list.
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And while nearly 6900,2628 needy Arkansans like Skylar are left waiting, the state has enrolled roughly 28503,22019 able-bodied adults in their expansion, moving them to the front of the line.
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Rather than take a moment to listen to the Deaf/disabled community about why we are upset, abled viewers accuse us of overreaction and align themselves with the able-bodied offender.
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Kentucky, for example, wants to require that "able-bodied" adults on Medicaid without children participate in job training or some form of community engagement for at least five hours a week.
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"We are going to allow states like Florida to include a work requirement for able bodied adults insuring that Medicaid's benefits are available for those who need them most," he said.
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Even temporary assistance for needy families falls short, as states are required to engage only 50 percent of their able bodied temporary assistance for needy families caseload with the work requirements.
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Now, Michigan and Ohio face costs far exceeding original projections, with the federal match rate declining and thousands of able-bodied working-age adults crowding out benefits to the most vulnerable.
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Right here in Nebraska, citizens are benefiting from programs like Connect, which help unemployed and underemployed able-bodied adults get the training they need to find employment and self-sufficiency. Gov.
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"We must reform our welfare system so that it does not discourage able-bodied adults from working, which takes away scarce resources from those in real need," the president's budget states.
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Disabled dancers struggle to gain the same exposure as able-bodied dancers, Smith noted, due to stubborn obstacles—inaccessible venues being one—that create barriers to artists and audiences with disabilities.
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Jonathan, the only able-bodied person in his home during the week, cares for his mother, brother, and grandmother before and after school, while simultaneously managing his football and school schedule.
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What can he possibly want with Rick as an individual at this point, when he's been content to slaughter a whole village presumably full of able-bodied and resourceful male leaders?
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In a speech in November hinting at the coming changes, Verma criticized ObamaCare for expanding Medicaid to "able-bodied" adults and said that group of people should be expected to work.
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People with disabilities make up nearly 20 percent of the population yet account for about 2 percent of onscreen characters, some 95 percent of which are played by able-bodied stars.
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The government, for instance, already imposes a three-month benefit limit on able-bodied, childless adults who receive SNAP benefits — if recipients fail to work or volunteer 3303 hours a month.
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The ethics around Muhn's case aren't so complicated—because he can't move his legs on his own, the implanted gadgets help him do something that most able-bodied people can do.
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Young feminists are doing the hard and necessary work of forging a more inclusive movement, one that's here for women who aren't white, straight, cisgender, able-bodied, or upper middle class.
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The Americans with Disabilities Act, a 1990 federal law, says that people who cannot ride subways and buses are entitled to go anywhere their local transit system takes able-bodied passengers.
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"The thought that a program designed for our most vulnerable citizens should be used as a vehicle to serve working age, able-bodied adults does not make sense," Ms. Verma said.
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"The thought that a program designed for our most vulnerable citizens should be used as a vehicle to serve working-age, able-bodied adults does not make sense," Ms. Verma said.
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Similar barriers and disparities exist if you're black or disabled, making the healthcare system especially perilous for people who fall into multiple boxes outside the white, cis, and able-bodied norm.
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The Germans deliberately destroyed everything of use in the Salient, and deported most of the able-bodied men to work in war production elsewhere while leaving women and the elderly behind.
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Walker's plan, "Wisconsin Works for Everyone," would impose new work requirements on both able-bodied adults with school-age children who receive state food assistance and those who receive housing assistance.
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The bill also currently requires able-bodied adults who do not have children under age 6 to work a total of 80 hours per month to receive any access to SNAP.
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And without the ability to move able-bodied individuals off of Medicaid's rolls, states will find it increasingly difficult to treat patients because costs will continue to spiral out of control.
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The food stamp program is intended to help people who temporarily can't help themselves, and federal law calls upon able-bodied adults without children to work in exchange for their welfare.
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Idaho is proposing a requirement that "able-bodied" people between 19 and 59 years old need to work, attend school or volunteer 20 hours per week to be eligible for Medicaid.
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as the food stamp program, has two sets of work requirements for participants, one for parents and another for able-bodied adults without children.
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Arguing that assistance to unemployed, able-bodied adults was not necessary in a strong economy, the administration would press states to impose work requirements that governors had been allowed to waive.
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The sticks would include cuts to disability and unemployment benefits and tighter Medicaid eligibility rules for the able-bodied — not as "pay fors," but simply to make sustained worklessness less pleasant.
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The groups say that many of the changes approved in Kentucky by the Trump administration — like requiring "able-bodied" adults to work or volunteer 20 hours a week — violate federal law.
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Namely, allowing states to require "able-bodied" Medicaid recipients to work could lead to some people losing coverage, though it is unclear how many states would choose to impose the requirements.
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He was going to demand a $12 billion Economic Bill of Rights to guarantee jobs for the able-bodied, income to those unable to work and an end to housing discrimination.
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Under that rule, able-bodied adults without dependents cannot receive food stamps for longer than three months unless they are working, volunteering or getting job training for 20 hours a week.
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States can also apply for a waiver that would allow them to require many Medicaid recipients, especially those who are able-bodied adults, to contribute to the costs of their care.
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Following these reforms, thousands of able-bodied adults moved from welfare to work, finding jobs in more than 220006 different industries and more than doubling their incomes within just a year.
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The Food Stamp law includes a common-sense requirement that able-bodied adults without dependents must work or be preparing for work to qualify for benefits for more than three months.
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To be eligible for SNAP benefits, program regulations require that able-bodied adults without dependents must either work or participate in a work program for at least 20 hours per week.
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The Double 2 also goes a bit faster this time around (up to 1.6 mph) to help it keep up with an able-bodied person's walking pace (as opposed to the grandmotherly .
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"DARPA seeks proposals to design, build, demonstrate, and validate a nonsurgical neural interface system to broaden the applicability of neural interfaces to the able-bodied warfighter," a synopsis of the proposal reads.
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But the inconsistency between the IOC and IPC's policies means that Russia's disabled athletes are now being punished more harshly than their able-bodied teammates—a discrepancy that had not gone unnoticed.
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This is especially true for "high-status" citizens who, by virtue of being white, male, able-bodied, heterosexual, wealthy, Protestant and well-educated have great advantages in the American game of life.
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Queerness, unlike heterosexuality or whiteness or being able-bodied, is not a neutral state, and as such seems to command some contextualizing energy in order to justify its presence within narrative spaces.
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Kentucky's waiver, submitted for federal approval in 0003, requires able-bodied adult recipients to participate in at least 80 hours a month of "employment activities," including jobs training, education and community service.
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The Trump administration says that "able-bodied" adults should work instead and that Medicaid should be reserved for children, people who are pregnant, adults who are disabled and very-low-income residents.
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That's because there are several kinds of Medicaid-eligible people: low-income children, disabled people, senior citizens in need of long-term care, and a relatively small number of able-bodied adults.
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According to the company's numbers, using conventional résumé screening, about a fifth of applicants who were not white, male, able-bodied people from elite schools made it to a first-round interview.
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The haj, which every able-bodied Muslim is required to perform, is believed to forgive the sins of a lifetime and leads the most zealous to seek to perform the rite repeatedly.
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The desire to create more inclusive, equitable and open societies has certainly made it easier to be someone other than a white, straight, able-bodied male than it was 50 years ago.
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But it still "blew their minds" to hear that people with disabilities wouldn't necessarily be coming to them with the goal of exercising like (or exercising to become like) able-bodied people.
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Last year, a study led by the Ruderman Foundation, an advocacy group for people with disabilities, found a whopping 95 percent of television characters with disabilities are played by able-bodied actors.
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Chicken houses needed to be built, feed needed to be hauled and distributed, and the birds needed to be slaughtered, processed, and shipped—tasks typically completed by young and able-bodied men.
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He goes on to explain how his goal is to change not only how these people see themselves, but to also change how more able-bodied people see those who are different.
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Korean law states that every able-bodied man must report for national service for 21 months before their 28th birthday, while exemption is offered to all Olympic medalists or Asian Games champions.
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It would also give the state new tools to encourage able-bodied adults on Medicaid to work, train, or volunteer — what could be one of the biggest Medicaid reforms in a generation.
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The result of Medicaid expansion has been nearly 368,85033 able-bodied, working age Arkansans collecting free insurance while a waiting list for the truly disabled in need of traditional Medicaid has grown.
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The bill called for the waiver to include work requirements for "able-bodied" adults and income verification, as well as cost-sharing provisions like premiums and copayments -- all policies favored by conservatives.
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When such characters did turn up, they were frequently used as objects of pity or as catalysts that allowed able-bodied characters to learn an obvious lesson or feel better about themselves.
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Strangely, my disability makes me feel as if I have license to play with and deconstruct sexuality in ways I might not have the bravery to do as an able-bodied woman.
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Reform of temporary assistance for needy families should strengthen the existing work provisions of the program by requiring nearly all able bodied adults to perform at least some sort of work activities.
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Nearly 2-1/303 million pilgrims, mostly from abroad, have arrived for the five-day ritual, a religious duty once in a lifetime for every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it.
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That many such voters would react angrily to footage of able-bodied people living it up at taxpayer expense ensures that cash grants alone will never constitute an adequate social safety net.
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Nor would it be out of ordinary to label her as yet another cis-gender, able-bodied, white woman who uses her sexual capital (which is completely her choice, and fair enough).
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Fortunately, the proposed farm bill addresses this basic concern by streamlining and increasing work requirements on all able-bodied adults, except those who are pregnant or care for children under age six.
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I log onto Instagram, and see motivational quotes advising me to mainline caffeine in order to build a business empire, or able-bodied women tapping away on laptops whilst drinking matcha lattes.
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Vikstroem endures the same problems — a meager pipeline, recruiting struggles — but in a nation where hockey is more popular and where the able-bodied, he said, are permitted to play in sleds.
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Most notoriously, the House bill's creators introduced stricter work requirements for users of food stamps, requiring able-bodied adult beneficiaries to work or participate in work training for 20 hours per week.
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Some 700,000 childless, able-bodied adults are due to lose their benefits if they are not working or enrolled in training, under a new rule due to take effect on April 1.
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Some 700,000 childless, able-bodied adults are due to lose their benefits if they are not working or enrolled in training, under a new rule due to take effect on April 1.
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With the able-bodied men off fighting, the work is left to the women, the guardians (in French, the title uses the feminine form of the noun) of tradition, honor and continuity.
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Even if the sergeant broke department rules, he still had the right under state law to use deadly force to defend himself against an able-bodied person attacking him with a weapon.
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When in 2009 the Obama administration extended food stamp benefits for able-bodied adults, Bloomberg's administration insisted it wasn't obligated to extend benefits to people not enrolled in its welfare jobs program.
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The Trump administration argues that "able-bodied" adults should work instead, and that Medicaid should be reserved for children, people who are pregnant, adults who are disabled and very-low income residents.
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While some people return to the camp every year, others attend the camp for one year, learn how to manage their equipment, and then join a camp with their able-bodied friends.
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Despite official projections, health care providers could avoid those cuts and keep Medicaid spending on its current, unsustainable path by banding together to lobby states to expand eligibility to able-bodied adults.
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Though Chiuri's unwavering dedication to discussing (and posing valid questions about) women's issues through the runway is noble, her couture is still only ever donned by young, thin, and able-bodied models.
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Medicaid was conceived to provide care for the poor and the disabled, but was expanded under the Affordable Care Act to cover able-bodied men and women earning above the poverty line.
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The bill called for the waiver to include work requirements for "able-bodied" adults and income verification, as well as cost-sharing provisions like premiums and copayments — all policies favored by conservatives.
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By law, all able-bodied men in South Korea must spend at least 220 months in the armed forces, a conscription system seen as crucial to the country's defense against North Korea.
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Most able-bodied adults without kids already have to work for a certain amount of hours each month to collect from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps.
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"I just feel that in the hands of mobility-challenged people like Elena, or children, or even able-bodied people losing their footing, these [straws] are so long and very strong," Mandy said.
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All told, just a tiny subset of Medicaid beneficiaries are-able bodied adults who do not have a reason for not working that would fail to pass muster with a state case worker.
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I more or less manage to live without fear of discrimination, avoid uncomfortable conversations or questions about my condition, and am treated as able-bodied by most in my day-to-day life.
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The suggestions included giving states more flexibility in designing their Medicaid programs as well as work requirements for Medicaid recipients and minimizing the ability of "able-bodied" adults to sign up for Medicaid.
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I'm terrified, and I — a 32-year-old able-bodied and generally healthy cisgender female who happened to survive nine months of living hell known as hyperemesis gravidarum — have had it fucking easy.
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Sunday morning, hundreds of athletes with every conceivable disability, from Manhattan to Mongolia, along with their able-bodied guides, will gather at the Achilles tent in the shadow of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.
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Stricter rules apply to able-bodied adults 18-49, who are subject to a three-month limit of benefits unless they meet a work or job training requirement of 80 hours per month.
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But instead of, you know, just putting them in the campaign, the magazine used two able-bodied models—actors Cleo Pires and Paulo Vilhena—and photoshopped them to look like Leite and Alexandre.
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The point – with which an overwhelming majority of Americans agree – was that services for seniors and individuals with disabilities should be a higher priority than welfare for able-bodied, childless, working-age adults.
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"I just feel that in the hands of mobility challenged people like Elena, or children, or even able-bodied people losing their footing, these things are so long and very strong," she wrote.
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And if it's hard for an able-bodied person to do, it may well be impossible for someone who suffers from a condition like ALS, or has missing limbs or other motor impairments.
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Unless you are not cisgender, able-bodied, or thin, in which case the odds of finding a massage therapist who won't actually cause further discomfort—both physical and emotional—can feel very slim.
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"Every dollar we give to an able-bodied, working-age person with no disabilities and no dependents is a dollar we're not able to provide… for those truly in need in our state".
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The Trump administration argues that "able-bodied" adults should be working instead, and that Medicaid should be reserved for children, people who are pregnant, adults who are disabled and very-low income residents.
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The collective needed to herd young men into the military, it needed able-bodied people to toil in fields and factories, and it needed doctors for its "free" medical-care-for-all system.
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Known as the Blade Runner for the flexible carbon-fiber prosthetic legs he used when competing, Mr. Pistorius achieved worldwide fame by challenging able-bodied athletes, most notably at the 2012 London Games.
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Generally, able-bodied young men must complete 18 weeks of military training shortly after they turn 18, followed by two weeks of extra training every year until they reach the age of 30.
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Though expansion was originally projected to add 22019,000 to ultimately 475,000 able-bodied adults to the Medicaid rolls, that number was eclipsed within the first year of enrollment and has now exceeded 620,000.
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The Trump administration's new "public charge" rule will force immigrants with disabilities to choose between receiving health care and staying in the U.S., advocates warn — and it'll favor wealthy, able-bodied immigrants instead.
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When a transport east was to leave Terezín, the S.S. determined the number and the category of prisoners (sometimes only able-bodied young men, sometimes the sick and the old) to be deported.
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But it's not hard to imagine a situation in which an able-bodied person uses technology like this to augment their own capabilities, improving them past the level usually attainable by human beings.
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Lawmakers, however, have indicated that it probably resembles the bipartisan Senate version, disposing of new, stricter work requirements passed by the House that would be imposed on able-bodied Americans seeking food stamps.
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The relationship between oral health and work has gained new salience in light of Kentucky's recently approved Medicaid waiver, which permits the state to impose work requirements on some able-bodied Medicaid enrollees.
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To address this crisis, in October 2023, Maine started requiring able-bodied childless adults to work, train, or volunteer on at least a part-time basis in order to continue receiving food stamps.
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But a number of mostly red states, including Maine, have held out, arguing the federal government shouldn't be picking up the tab to cover childless, "able-bodied" adults who could get insurance elsewhere.
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In response to questions, he said states should be allowed to require certain able-bodied adults without children to work, seek work or participate in job training as a condition of receiving Medicaid.
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If you're going to use an able-bodied person to tell a disabled story, you have to have a damn good reason why, and I can't think of one damn good reason why.
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I am more than happy to help our exhausted hostess, but I resent cleaning up after able-bodied children and teenagers (especially as I always did cleanup duty when I was their age).
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Instead, "able-bodied" Americans who are not caring for a child less than 6900 years old will be eligible for food stamps only if they're employed or enrolled in a vocational training program.
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The Trump administration finalized a rule last month that would raise the bar for states seeking to waive certain work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents and living in economically distressed areas.
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Under Kentucky's 1115 waiver, able-bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 85033 would be required to complete 80 hours of "community engagement" each month as a condition for receiving Medicaid coverage.
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House leaders also included provisions to allow states to impose a work requirement for certain able-bodied Medicaid beneficiaries, and to allow states to choose a lump-sum block grant to fund Medicaid.
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Able-bodied men in the country must register to spend about two years in the armed forces, as part of a conscription system seen as crucial to the country's defense against North Korea.
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For example, in her video "Top 3 Funny Things Able Body People Say" Lauren shared some of the most ridiculous things able bodied people do that show they really don't understand disabled culture.
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House Agriculture Chair Michael Conaway (R-TX) praised the new USDA rule for "creating a roadmap for states to more effectively engage [able-bodied adults without dependents] in this booming economy," AP reported.
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Every able-bodied Muslim who can is supposed to go on haj at least once in their lifetime and Saudi Arabia takes great pride in its role as the guardian of Islam's holiest sites.
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Saudi Arabia said on Monday that over 1.735 million pilgrims have arrived from abroad for the ritual, a once-in-a-lifetime religious duty for every able-bodied Muslim who can afford the journey.
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It still isn't clear whether Seungri will defer or move forward with his plans to enlist in the military on March 25, a requirement for all able-bodied South Korean men aged 18-35.
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The technology would provide a seemingly unlimited supply of able-bodied laborers for endeavors in the government, public and private sectors, and household help would be accessible to all for the first time ever.
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But, as much as we enjoy The Bachelor's contestants, it's no secret that they all share one distinct feature: they are all thin and able-bodied, conforming to a very rigid standard of beauty.
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We need to have a welfare system that says we're going to help you, but if you are able-bodied in order to get that help, you have to do some kind of work.
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"We've just told the front desk that we have an able-bodied crew and if we need to deliver toilet paper and water to people's rooms, we're ready to be on staff," she said.
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The 1996 welfare overhaul signed into law by then-President Clinton limited childless, able-bodied adults to three months of SNAP benefits every three years, if they weren't working, volunteering or earning an education.
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During the first phase of Arkansas' program, able-bodied adults aged 30 to 49 who earn less than $680 a month will have to submit documents each month showing they have worked or volunteered.
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I also expect sufficient funds are available from big hitters like the UK to get construction going again, putting the remaining able bodied in Syria back to work -- and put money in their pockets.
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While retirees may have left the job market, about half consists of able-bodied working-age Americans who may have quit looking for employment because they couldn't find a job (or became convinced so).
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And while the ADA was created to protect people with special needs from discrimination, sadly it does not thwart those who are able-bodied and seeking to take advantage of the service animal privilege.
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If you assume that because there are no longer phaseout rates to programs discouraging work, every able-bodied poor person gets a minimum wage job, working half time, the rate falls by 84 percent.
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And throughout this year's health care debate, people with disabilities worked with able-bodied activists to stage the sort of spectacle necessary to cut through the endless spectacle produced by Donald Trump's White House.
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The Trump administration argues that "able-bodied" adults should instead be working, and that Medicaid should be reserved for children, women who are pregnant, adults who are disabled and residents with very low incomes.
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If the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approves the request, certain "able-bodied" Medicaid beneficiaries will be required to work, volunteer, or go to school for 2628 hours a month beginning Feb. 28500.
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They point out that the overwhelming majority of able-bodied adult clients of anti-poverty programs do paid work, but are in unstable jobs with wages too low to enable survival without some help.
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"To get on one of these mountains and to accomplish something most able-bodied people can't, it would be like vanquishing that demon that was left behind by the war," Linville said in April.
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JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — It is incumbent upon every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so to travel to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Islam's holiest site, at least once in his or her lifetime.
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In 2012, he became the first double amputee to compete against able-bodied runners at the London Olympics, adding to his fame as the "Blade Runner," a reference to his carbon-fiber prosthetic legs.
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At the core of that program is a requirement that a portion of able bodied recipients of temporary assistance for needy families engage in "work activities" for 22019 hours to 30 hours every week.
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State officials that saw previous waivers denied can now focus on advancing responsible reforms that help able-bodied Medicaid recipients gain skills and education, while preserving the safety net for those most in need.
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"I am especially supportive of the reforms made to SNAP, which require able-bodied individuals aged 18-59 to participate in employment training or work a minimum of 20 hours a week," said Rep.
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The SS, famously, would subject all new arrivals to a selection: by and large, the able-bodied were chosen to head to the camp, and the slow death of starvation, disease, overwork, and violence.
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Sue Chevalier Idskou, her grandmother, has taken Bella and her own daughter, Bella's aunt Skye, who is 10 and able-bodied, to Morgan's Wonderland at least twice a week for the last three years.
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We got Montel, famously a Navy veteran, Wednesday in L.A. and he absolutely unloaded on the Prez for what he sees as blatant discrimination against able-bodied Americans who want to protect their country.
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She and other music therapists working in end-of-life care often play music from when their clients were young, to help transport them back to a time when they were able-bodied. Mrs.
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Hershey believed that all able-bodied American men had the obligation to serve the nation, but he began to advocate a definition of service that included civilian pursuits, particularly in science, mathematics and engineering.
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It has the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare to approve waivers that allow states to impose new eligibility requirements on able-bodied adults who signed up for Medicaid as part of the ACA expansion.
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The premise is simple and extraordinary in its efficient enforcement: Every able-bodied Rwandan citizen between the ages of 18 and 65 must take part in community service for three hours once a month.
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Mr. Yendell's life has been "no different" from that of his able-bodied peers, he has noted on his website, except that he learned to perform everyday tasks with his mouth, chin and feet.
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In exchange, for able-bodied adults in the program, states could apply to receive a fixed federal payment and freedom from many of the program's rules, according to several individuals familiar with the plans.
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And advocates for poor people questioned whether the order could achieve even modest goals, saying most able-bodied adults who receive noncash federal aid either already work or face significant impediments to doing so.
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Mr. Wagner on Friday said he backed an expansion plan as long as it required able-bodied adults to work and taxed hospitals to pay the state's share of the $2 billion yearly costs.
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Starting in April, "able-bodied adults without dependents" will have to work at least 20 hours a week in order to consistently receive the food aid, under a rule change by the Trump administration.
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South Korea, which remains technically at war with North Korea across one of the world's most heavily armed borders, requires all able-bodied men to serve for about two years in its armed forces.
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Alexander: If you close your mind, whether you have CP or you're able-bodied, when thinking about sex or a relationship, then you risk losing a big part of your life—on both sides.
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Jacob deGrom is the best able-bodied starter the Mets have now, and he was off to a strong start this year despite coming off a season-ending operation on his elbow in September.
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By law, able-bodied South Korean men must register to spend about two years in the armed forces, as part of a conscription system seen as crucial to the country's defense against North Korea.
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It is not a distant program that benefits any one group – it helps Americans across all demographics – racially, economically and generationally, including "able-bodied" workers for whom health insurance is otherwise out of reach.
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" He said Medicaid, the government insurance program for the poor, is traditionally for the "aged, blind and the disabled" and that ObamaCare wrongly expanded it to people who are "working age" and "able-bodied.
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In 2018, the state legislature passed a law that required "able-bodied" Tennesseans who do qualify for TennCare to hold a job or go to school if they wanted to keep their health insurance.
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Evans calls this shift job atomization, and posits that society's ingrained "assumption that every able-bodied adult should have a full-time job" is the actual problem standing in the way of an automated future.
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FGA found more than 11 million able-bodied adults have enrolled in Medicaid since expansion was first implemented, "exceeding projections … by an average of 110 percent," according to Fox News' analysis of the FGA report.
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Three years later in December 2015, Stutzman landed in the Guinness Book of World Records when he hit a target from 930 feet, shattering the previous record – by an able-bodied athlete – by 274 feet.
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Pistorius, known as "Blade Runner" for his carbon-fiber running blades, gained worldwide fame when he ran against able-bodied athletes at the 2012 London Olympics, the first amputee runner to compete at the games.
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These waivers were meant for tough economic times when jobs are scarce, but even though there are 6.6 million open jobs right now, most able-bodied childless adults on the program aren't required to work.
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For Gallegos, while he is able to walk and even run, his path to become one of the few able-bodied people with cerebral palsy to complete a half marathon certainly did not come easily.
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Instead of providing more subsidies to able bodied, middle class people to buy potentially overpriced insurance, it would be nicer if that money was spent on covering more of the truly poor and very sick.
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One of the bills would require permission from the state legislature before the state's executive branch could make waivers or changes to public assistance programs, including work- and drug-testing requirements for "able-bodied" adults.
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You might assume I would look at an able-bodied synchronized swimmer and wish I had a left hand, but I was really thinking about how thin she was and how big her boobs were.
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"I think if we look at things like work requirements and things for able-bodied individuals, I think that's fine, but if you look at Medicare, Social Security, I think that'd be problematic," said Rep.
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Public debate about the poor, Mr. Hindle said, has centered ever since on a set of opposites: the deserving versus the undeserving, the idle versus the industrious, the able-bodied versus the old and sick.
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"Being able to win an able-bodied national title in snowboard cross as someone with a prosthetic leg — it's, like, almost as euphoric as winning a gold medal in the games in Sochi," he said.
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It boils down to matters of accuracy — stories that supposedly reflect American culture ought to outgrow the myth that touching, outrageous, or supernatural things only happen to middle-class, able-bodied, white, cis, heterosexual people.
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Legislators are also eager to resolve an impasse over a major farm bill and the House's decision to add new work requirements for able-bodied adults seeking food stamps, a move Mr. Trump has encouraged.
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"We believe our public assistance programs should ask able-bodied adults to take steps toward self-sufficiency through work, while also providing comprehensive tools to help them get and keep a job," Walker said Monday.
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The results are similar in Kansas where time limits and work requirements were enforced in 2013, resulting in roughly half of able-bodied adults leaving SNAP within just 3 months and a continued decline thereafter.
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We saw it in the mass murder and enslavement of Yazidis in Iraq and Syria, where ISIS killed the old and infirm and the able-bodied men, and sold the women and children into slavery.
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Kentucky's waiver would also eliminate dental and vision coverage for the "able-bodied" population, but beneficiaries would be allowed to earn "reward" points for such services by volunteering, attending classes or other types of activities.
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Most poor people who can work do: A recent study of adults affected by Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, for example, found that 87 percent of able-bodied beneficiaries were working, looking for work or in school.
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For Zipporah Arielle, a writer and disability activist, it's frustrating to see many of the accommodations they and other people with disabilities have been asking for only implemented when able-bodied people feel at risk.
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Don't hold an objectI get that officers have tasers with great de-escalating, limb-aiming abilities, but if you're rocking a screwdriver that'll put the fear in three or more able-bodied crime-fighting professionals.
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The study found that in last year's TV season, less than 2 percent of characters were written to have a disability and of THOSE characters, 95 percent of the roles were filled with able-bodied actors.
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"The media is slowly starting to cover a wider range of fans instead of just filming the cis, white, straight, able-bodied, big-tittied white girl that's out there, and more power to them," Justice said.
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Two weekends ago, Pence was in Jacksonville, Florida, selling the now-defunct GOP health care proposal with the pitch that the Obamacare replacement would allow states to impose a work requirement for able-bodied Medicaid recipients.
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In fact, I've often challenged activists (particularly white, cis, wealthy, able-bodied activists) to be considerate of those they're asking to stand up with, and for, them, who often have more at stake than they do.
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The "third Muslim" is a reference to the many identities both assumed and transposed on queer and trans Muslims, who inhabit a third space outside notions of a monolithic Islam and cisgendered, white, able-bodied queerness.
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Those under this level could still receive support from Medicaid, but states would no longer be paid more to provide services for able-bodied adults than they are for children, pregnant women, the disabled, or elderly.
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The waiver would require able-bodied adults between the ages of 19 and 55 -- with certain exemptions -- to work, attend school or go to employment support and development programs for at least 20 hours a week.
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I have worked with my colleagues in the House and the Republican Study Committee to make this legislation more conservative through block grants and other improvements such as work requirements for able-bodied, working age adults.
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Single, childless, able-bodied adults were made eligible for Medicaid under the ACA, and CBO estimated that many of these individuals would work less since they no longer needed full-time jobs to maintain health insurance.
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Shane and Hannah Aylward, his new fiancée, are an interabled couple: Shane has a condition called spinal muscular atrophy, a type of muscular dystrophy that means his muscles are incredibly weak, while Hannah is able-bodied.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said the ruling was a "blow" to the administration's efforts to encourage work among "able-bodied" adults in the Medicaid program, but said he is "undeterred" and proceeding forward.
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Under the measure, all able-bodied adults between the ages of 21625 and 2900 have to be working or enrolled in a training program for at least 220006 hours per week to qualify for food stamps.
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Torres Strait, Australia (CNN)Almost every able-bodied Indigenous man throughout Australia's Torres Strait Islands signed up to defend their country against the threat of invasion during World War II, despite not being recognized as citizens.
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" It courses through President Trump's rhetoric as he's pushed for work requirements in a variety of public programs, arguing, "We must reform our welfare system so that it does not discourage able-bodied adults from working.
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Under the measure, all able-bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 59 have to be working or enrolled in a training program for at least 85033 hours per week to qualify for food stamps.
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Instead of government asking for able-bodied people receiving government assistance to take a job if there is one, little is done to encourage work.. The arguments for resisting work requirements rely on emotion, not facts.
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"The image of able-bodied men not working are African-American men in the minds ― not in everybody's minds, but there are unfortunately people out there who have this mental disposition," Scott, a black legislator, said.
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"The real business dynamic of [hiring an able bodied actor] is the choice of the studios to try to see if they can make an investment into a film that could bring a return," Cranston said.
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The speaker may have publicly disavowed his 2012 claim that the safety net was being transformed into a "hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence," but once again, actions spoke louder than words.
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Under the new rule "able-bodied" Americans who are not caring for a child younger than 6 years old would be eligible for food stamps only if they're employed or enrolled in a vocational training program.
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"It's hard for them to explain to the nurses what they want or how they feel," said inmate Scottie Glenn, 47, who participates in a program in which able-bodied inmates help those who are ill.
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In that guidance letter, she said states could get permission for the first time to require able-bodied low-income Americans to work, volunteer or engage in job training to qualify for the state-federal program.
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There's also an educational aspect: the camp features an obstacle course for able-bodied people to go through using crutches or a wheelchair — something that has inspired participants to change the designs of their own camps.
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Able-bodied adults with no children lose their food assistance if they fail to work 80 hours a month for three months in a three-year period unless they live in a state with a waiver.
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All able-bodied South Korean men between the ages of 18 and 35 are required to perform at least 21 months of active-duty military service, and can face prison if they attempt to avoid conscription.
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Herr's inventions not only support those in need of prosthetic limbs, they also improve the lives of the able-bodied: His advanced exoskeletons are being used to mitigate the natural degradation of joints as we age.
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On welfare reform, another key Republican issue, he passed the strictest law in the nation that put a time limit on cash benefits and required able bodied recipients to find a job or perform community service.
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The heat spiked on May 18, just days after the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan — during which all able-bodied Muslims are required to abstain from food and water from sunrise to sunset.
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Worse, at an average of $6,366 a pop, the Medicaid costs of this newly eligible (and presumably able-bodied) population was 23 percent more than the average Medicaid cost of $5,159 per non-newly eligible enrollee.
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I was concerned that my situation would immediately fall into a stereotyped narrative — either disability as tragedy or disability as my personal hurdle I sought to overcome as I desperately worked to rejoin the able-bodied.
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One example of a Medicaid waiver involves work rules, which require able-bodied adults to work a minimum number of hours each month or participate in an equivalent activity as a condition for continued Medicaid eligibility.
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"The thought that a program designed for our most vulnerable citizens should be used as a vehicle to serve working age, able-bodied adults … does not make sense," Verma said in a speech late last year.
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They cite a 75 percent drop in the number of able-bodied adults on SNAP in Kansas, and say people who found jobs after being removed from the rolls reported average income growth of 127 percent.
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The unusual scenario has come as a result of South Korean law which states that all able-bodied South Korean men must complete 21 months service in the military as a deterrent against their northern neighbor.
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The waiver would require able-bodied adults between the ages of 19 and 55 — with certain exemptions — to work, attend school or go to employment support and development programs for at least 20 hours a week.
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The change that the Trump administration announced Wednesday makes it harder for able-bodied adults without dependents to receive SNAP benefits for longer than three months out of a 36-month period, unless they are working.
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Custodian of Islam's most revered places, Saudi Arabia stakes its reputation on organizing haj, one of the five pillars of Islam which every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to is obliged to undertake at least once.
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Most unemployed, able-bodied adults without dependents — often referred to as ABAWDs — are limited to three months of benefits every three years, unless they are working 20 hours per week or participating in a job-training program.
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Saudi Arabia said more than 2.3 million pilgrims, most of them from abroad, had arrived for the five-day ritual, a religious duty once in a lifetime for every able-bodied Muslim who can afford the journey.
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After approving the legislation, the panel adopted four non-binding Republican recommendations for changes before it moves to the House floor, including one by the conservative Palmer on adding work requirements for able-bodied, childless Medicaid recipients.
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As a consequence, the most powerful rebel coalition in northern Syria and an association of mostly jihadist religious scholars have both issued calls to arms not just to able-bodied Syrians, but to the entire Muslim world.
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Despite being a work of fiction, if the film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada taught us anything, it's that even Anne Hathaway—a white, thin, able-bodied, conventionally pretty, cisgender woman—can feel like an outsider.
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Bevin declined a VICE News interview request, but a plan he proposed last year would do away with automatic dental and vision benefits, enact work requirements, and charge small monthly premiums for "able-bodied" adults on Medicaid.
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The court enabled Oscar Pistorius to run against able-bodied athletes, upheld the cyclist Floyd Landis's doping suspension and prevented Luis Suárez from overturning his suspension from soccer for biting an opponent at the 22012 World Cup.
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Stricter rules apply to able-bodied adults without dependents between the ages of 18 and 49, who are subject to a three-month limit of benefits unless they meet a work requirement of 80 hours per month.
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He was born with phocomelia resulting in a left-arm much smaller than his right and, in lieu of a suitable disabled competitor, the 31-year-old from Cambridge took on local able-bodied fighter JP Withers.
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For three years, Pistorius – a celebrity at the 2012 London Summer Olympics and the first to compete on prosthetics at that level against more able-bodied runners – has stuck to his account of what happened that night.
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When the reform comes into force in July, able-bodied adults enrolled in Medicaid risk losing their insurance if they do not fulfil a "community engagement" requirement—2000 hours of work, job-seeking or volunteering each week.
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Many employers segregate their 2900(c) employees into so-called sheltered workshops where they are isolated from their able-bodied peers and forced to perform low-skill work that offers little preparation for a more fruitful career.
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To partake in the blessings of the month of Ramadan, able-bodied women and men, also girls and boys who have reached the age of religious observance, are required to fast for the duration of this month.
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"Obamacare took Medicaid, which was designed to help the poor, the needy, the sick, disabled, also children and pregnant women, it took it and went way above the poverty line to many able-bodied Americans," she said.
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Originally aimed to provide care for children, pregnant mothers, the elderly, the blind and disabled, ObamaCare's Medicaid Expansion provision has transitioned the program into a vehicle to reduce the number of low-income uninsured, able-bodied adults.
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And all this is happening, mind you, in a state where about 15 percent of its population is without health insurance and Medicaid is essentially off limits to able-bodied adults regardless of how poor they are.
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When Kansas implemented work requirements for some able-bodied adults on food stamps, those who cycled off the program went back to work in more than 85033 different industries and their incomes more than doubled on average.
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In a series of interviews promoting The Upside, star Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) spoke out about the lack of acting opportunities for disabled actors, despite being an able bodied actor who just took one of those roles.
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The Agriculture Department completed its food-stamp rule in December, arguing that the strong economy and tight labor market made it appropriate to require that unemployed, able-bodied adults without children find work to continue receiving assistance.
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Wellness is a largely white, privileged enterprise catering to largely white, privileged, already thin and able-bodied women, promoting exercise only they have the time to do and Tuscan kale only they have the resources to buy.
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Mr. Bevin has consistently attacked the expansion as a waste of money, questioning why "able-bodied" adults should be given free government health care that used to be largely limited to children, the elderly and the disabled.
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For decades, South Korea has required all able-bodied men in South Korea to serve in the armed forces and granted few exemptions under a conscription system seen as crucial to the country's defense against North Korea.
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Mecca is the holiest site in the Islamic world and is the place of pilgrimage, or hajj, which all able-bodied Muslims are required to do at least once in their lifetimes if they are financially able.
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In December, the US Department of Agriculture approved new rules that will require able-bodied adults without children to work 20 hours a week, or participate in a job-search program, in order to receive SNAP benefits.
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Judge James Boasberg issued his ruling after advocacy groups representing 28503 Kentucky Medicaid recipients sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for approving Bevin's request to impose work requirements on the program's able-bodied adults.
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Since 2017, 11 states have requested permission from the Trump administration to require able-bodied adults to work, volunteer, enroll in education programs, or undergo job training to help them find meaningful work and employer-based coverage.
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That the actors are all able-bodied seems to counter the film's goal of positive representation, although Wong reportedly partnered with organizations serving people who are disabled, which pays off in his sensitive portrayal of the characters.
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"The Medicaid expansion has created a perverse incentive for states to provide benefits to able-bodied adults at the expense of the elderly, the blind and the disabled," Representative Gary Palmer, Republican of Alabama, said this week.
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The idea that safety-net programmes function as a poverty trap—or, in the words of Paul Ryan, a former House Speaker, as "a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency"—remains.
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One early indication of the Trump administration's stance will be whether it approves Kentucky's request to require able-bodied Medicaid recipients to either work, enroll in school, get job training or volunteer 20 hours a week. Gov.
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