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People with blindness and low vision are squeezed by high costs of living − new research

  • Written by Zachary Morris, Associate Professor of Social Welfare, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
People with blindness and low vision are squeezed by high costs of living − new researchA young blind man prepares to board a Denver RTD light rail train in 2019.Robert Alexander/GettyImages

Colin Wong, a blind Ph.D. student, can’t forget having to pay US$100 for an Uber when he needed to take a standardized test. There was no testing center in San Francisco, where he lived, that could accommodate his disability.

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