I found interest in the article “Who’s Able-Bodied Anyway”  by Emily Badger. In the article Badger brings up the term “able-bodied” and the existing controversy over what the word means and who it entails to. In this discussion, Badger mentions the Trump administration by saying, “they are effectively everyone left, and they have become the focus of resurgent conservative proposals to overhaul government aid, such as one announced last month by the Trump administration that would allow states to test work requirements for medicaid.” In addition to this, Badger makes the point that “there is no standard for physical or mental ability that makes a person able”.  Towards the end of the article, Badger makes one more statement being “the food stamp program does identify a group called able-bodied adults without dependents. But Medicaid makes no mention of them.”

With everything stated above, I have concluded that people in the government and positions of power have used the term “able-bodied” to target a certain group of people who society deems as too lazy or just unwilling to work. These people, near homeless/homeless, who are labelled by the circumstance they do not inhabit, are put in a specific category just because of it. Things like this include “not disabled, not elderly, not children, not pregnant, not blind.” These people, the able-bodied, are judged and mistreated by people who may or may not acknowledge their position is the result of inequality in systems and institutions. Other factors can be conditions not recognized important by society, such as depression, anxiety, etc.