Only one state has disability coverage parity, in which mental health conditions are covered in the same way as physical health conditions: Vermont. In the other 49 states, long-term disability ...

Vermont found fears about parity in disability coverage were wrong. Why won't others follow? Disability carriers have continued to avoid parity, which has translated to people paying billions of ...

Middlesex Town Clerk Sarah Merriman, right, shows Lindsey Owen, the Disability Rights Vermont executive director, the dreaded lift inside the town hall, which is quite old and isn't easy to use. On ...

“As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers. This week, one man’s struggle with homelessness and accessibility.

The percentage of students with disabilities in Vermont’s education system is on the rise, while many school districts lack the capacity to meet their needs, according to a new report released this ...

MONTPELIER According to Wallace Nolen, gas stations in Vermont are not doing what they should to help disabled customers. Nolen, of Barre, spends a lot of his time working to right what he sees as ...

Vermont is the only state that treats mental and physical disability claims the same. Why don't we? Disability carriers have continued to avoid parity, which has translated to people paying billions ...