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Podcast: So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
Episode: 1203: The Financial Cost of Having a Disability with Author Emily Rapp Black
Description: One in four adults has a disability in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, yet our country and culture falls behind in supporting this community in many ways to achieve the same opportunities as everyone else. This episode explores the financial inequalities, specifically, as well as some of the emotional and social struggles when you're a person living with a disability, as experienced by guest and memoirist Emily Rapp Black.
Black lost her left leg at the age of six, due to a congenital birth defect. She was soon after chosen as the poster...