Best and Worst Cities for Disabled to Live.

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With last year's cost-of-living adjustment for disability benefits being lower than U.S. inflation, the personal-finance website WalletHub conducted an analysis of the Best & Worst Cities for People with Disabilities. In order to ease the process of finding the best place to live while managing a disability, analysts compared the 150 most-populated U.S. cities across 28 key indicators. The data set ranges from wheelchair-accessible facilities per capita to rate of workers with disabilities to quality of public hospital systems.

The 10 best cities, starting at No. 1, are Overland Park, Kan.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Denver, Colo.; Salt Lake City, Utah; Aurora, Colo.; St. Louis, Mo.; Chicago, III.; Chandler, Ariz.; Amarillo, Texas; and Kansas City, Mo.

The 10 worst cities, from the bottom up, are San Bernardino, Calif.; Greensboro, N.C.; Providence, R.I.; Winston-Salem, N.C.; Brownsville, Texas; Newark, N.J.; Shreveport, La.; Baton Rouge, La...

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