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“Disability resources, particularly ones that help students while they’re in high school to prepare for life after graduation or after they age out of public education. Programs like mine are federally funded and have been slowly losing money. We can’t afford to help students work through the school year, and there’s no guarantee that the agencies we refer them to will last under Trump. Even state programs are folding due to funding cuts, and we’re in a large blue state. No one knows what’s going to happen next, and everyone is expected to operate like normal and just scale back services (easier said than done), or be optimistic that next year or after the election, we’ll get more money.”
“No one is willing to acknowledge the elephant in the room. Between the economy getting worse and the war in Iran, no one is going to fund programs so students with disabilities can work. People with disabilities are often the canary in the coal mine, sadly.”
—Anonymous