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Melissa Hughes: “We would need to eliminate [the SSDI income] disparity.”

Featuring: Melissa Hughes, Secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

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Wisconsin Disability Caucus 2026 Governor Candidate Forum

Published | Video Starts at 30:04

… amounts to 1632 an hour for blind people versus $9.75 an hour for non blind people. Both groups seeking full time employment. Missy, do you want to go first? Yeah. We would need to eliminate [the SSDI income] disparity. It, again, is nonsensical and is, I think, a Result of efforts to create more difficulty rather than finding solutions and moving things in a way that folks can advance … (30:04–30:07)

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Asserts the need to eliminate income disparity in SSDI benefits.

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