Reminder that the US Census Bureau is talking about changing how it counts disability, a move which would create an at least 40% reduction in the number of people counted as disabled, and thus radically alter who can get benefits. You have until tomorrow (December 19, 2023) to weigh in on it:
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/18/1218954729/census-bureau-survey-disabled-people-with-disabilities
@Wolven So help me out here. A [group of disability rights advocates](https://www.washingtongroup-disability.com/) including many people with actual disabilities developed a more nuanced set of questions that align with how disability is surveyed internationally, and that is bad because a simplistic summary of the data would show fewer people in an already poorly defined "disabled" categorization? Why is it not better to have better, more detailed, more comparable data and make the conversation about how we address the challenges that this data will show?
@antares because as several other disabled people and rights orgs have already noted, our current methodology of vounting and categorizing disability results in an UNDERCOUNT of people who might benefit from disability assistance, and any system whuch reduced that count further is going to screw over a LOT of people.