Yesterday, John and I were on Capitol Hill as part of the CEO Commission for Disability Employment's Hill Day. We spent the day in the offices of members of Congress and their staff, making the case for people with differing abilities.

Three issues were at the heart of our conversations.

The subminimum wage. Employers can legally pay people with a disability as little as five cents an hour in sheltered workshops. Five cents. That is not a typo. It is not a relic. It is happening today, and it needs to end.

The SSI asset limit. If a person with a disability has more than $2,000 in savings, they lose their SSI benefits. That limit was set in 1984 and has never been raised. It means a person cannot save for a vacation, a rainy day, or a car without risking the support they depend on. It gets worse: if two people are married, the combined limit is not $4,000; it is $3,000. A marriage penalty, baked into law for forty years.

We are asking Congress to raise that limit to $10,000 and tie future increases to inflation. That is not a radical ask. It is a basic one.

Entrepreneurs with differing abilities. John built a business. We know how hard it is to access capital and support when you have a differing ability. We don't even have good data on how many entrepreneurs with differing abilities are out there, let alone what they need. We asked the Small Business Administration to start collecting that data and to coordinate with the National Council on Disability. You can't solve a problem you're not measuring.

Because of what John's Crazy Socks has built, people listen to us. That crates an obligation for us to speak up for people with differing abilities. Advocating for people with differing abilities is not separate from our mission; it is the mission. And we will keep showing up wherever we have the chance to make that case.

Grateful to be part of #CEOCHillDay and to stand alongside the leaders of the CEO Commission for Disability Employment who are pushing this