The Wake Up

The Year in Disability Rights


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This year brought some victories to the disability community, with pay raised for personal care assistants who act as caregivers, and some grief, with the loss of activist Judy Heumann and four of 18 people killed in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine being deaf. GBH News reporter Meghan Smith joins Paris to recap. Plus: Jeremy speaks to Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston CEO Robert Lewis, Jr. and board member Michael Curry about the state of hunger in Massachusetts.

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