Campaigns are active in most states. Ensure adequate disability benefits for those unable to work. Individuals unable to work due to disabilities are continually vulnerable to poverty and homelessness. Poverty is most effectively addressed by ensuring universal access to comprehensive health care including addiction treatment, by increasing the availability of housing to persons with very low incomes, and by guaranteeing that disability payments are high enough to lift individuals and families from poverty. State programs for single adults with disabilities remain limited where they still exist.
Current law allows the money to be used in creative ways.
Advocates for single adults should get involved in state planning processes for the use of these surplus resources. Encourage linkages between organized labor and welfare advocates. Organized labor and welfare advocates, however, have hardly begun to join forces and combat trends that force an increasing number of individuals into a labor market paying less than a livable wage. Both populations live in conditions of worsening poverty. End the exploitation of poor and homeless adults carried out by temporary labor pools.