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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)
imageA 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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