The Disability Economic Justice Collaborative

Launched in April 2022, The Century Foundation’s Disability Economic Justice Collaborative (DEJC) is a first-of-its-kind initiative bringing together more than forty leading disability rights and justice organizations, Washington, D.C. based think tanks, advocacy organizations, and top research and policy organizations committed to finally achieving economic security and justice for people with disabilities in the United States more than three decades after the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became law. Collaborative members meet monthly to learn from one another, work in partnership, and apply a disability lens across economic policy making. The Collaborative is committed to breaking the persistent link between disability and poverty in the United States; breaking down the systemic barriers to economic security and justice that are the “unfinished business” of the ADA; and to understanding how race, gender, LGBTQIA+ status, and other identities intersect in the lives of disabled people.