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Nearly 20,000 adults with developmental disabilities are waiting for help from the state to live on their own

Marie Fazio  |  December 3, 2019

By Marie Fazio, includes “… At a hearing in October, U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman said the state was still not complying with the order. As a result, she said people have ‘suffered substantially’ and called the current situation ‘for lack of a better phrase, messed up.’ Experts in the field say parents are quitting jobs to take care of their children and even moving to other states. …”

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