Lawmaker looks to modernize the Ability One program
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-NY) introduced legislation (H.R. 5983) to modernize the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act, known as the Ability One program. This act has not been changed in decades. The Ability One program provides employment for over 40,000 individuals with significant disabilities, the majority of whom have intellectual and developmental disabilities. Numerous chapters of The Arc and several affiliates of United Cerebral Palsy participate in the Ability One program.