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Sara Luterman

Disability and Aging Reporter

Sara Luterman is our disability and aging reporter. She is based outside Washington, D.C. Prior to The 19th, she worked as a freelancer covering disability policy, politics and culture for publications including The Nation, The American Prospect and Vox. Her reporting in The Nation was shortlisted for the 2021 Deadline Club Mosaic Award, which recognizes excellence in “coverage of disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, social justice, equity and inclusion.” Most recently, Sara became a contributing editor for Radiolab.

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Latest from Sara Luterman

Maggie Hassan makes a personal case for more caregiver funding in the reconciliation bill

The senator talks about how home-based disability care helped her family and why it is important for seniors and people with disabilities to have a voice.

Sara Luterman · September 27, 2021
Most home care workers aren’t required to get the COVID vaccine, leaving the people they care for vulnerable

Home care workers represent 53 percent of the workforce supporting seniors and people with disabilities, but the majority of them are not impacted by Biden’s vaccine mandates.

Sara Luterman · September 22, 2021
People under conservatorship aren’t free to marry who they want. That includes Britney Spears.

Disability and marriage have an especially fraught relationship in American history.

Sara Luterman · September 16, 2021

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