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Obit: Paul Steven Miller, law professor and disability advocate

Patricia Bauer — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:05:22 +0000

From the New York Times: After graduating at the top of his class at Harvard Law School in the 1980s, Paul Steven Miller was rejected by more than 40 law firms before he was able to find work. The reason: Miller was born with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. One hiring partner told him that [...]

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‘Monica & David’ premieres Thursday on HBO

Patricia Bauer — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:40:16 +0000

For couple with Down syndrome, does love conquer all? Newsweek calls this Tribeca-award-winning documentary “a triumph” and “a refreshing and rare story for television.” It’s a chronicle of the courtship, marriage, and happily-ever-after of Monica and David, two young people who have Down syndrome. The Washington Post calls it “a moving affair, a film that [...]

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Harris poll: Businesses don’t welcome people with disabilities

Patricia Bauer — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:16:37 +0000

From Business Week/HealthDay; National Organization on Disability press release: A new Harris poll finds that few American companies hire job seekers with disabilities or take steps to provide a welcoming work environment for them, even though many of these companies say that hiring people with disabilities is important. The national poll of 411 senior executives [...]

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Study: Lack of characters with disabilities on TV

Patricia Bauer — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:05:06 +0000

From The Hollywood Reporter, IAMPWD.org: A new report on minority representation on broadcast television finds that scripted characters with identifiable disabilities will represent only one percent of all scripted series regular characters on the five broadcast networks this fall. That’s just six characters out of 587. Of those six, only one is played by an [...]

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Job prospects dismal for people with disabilities

Patricia Bauer — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:40:53 +0000

From the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post ‘Federal Eye’ blog, and the Kansas City Star: In its first detailed look at employment for workers with disabilities, the federal government reports that these workers are far more likely than people without disabilities to be out of work or working only part-time. According to the Department of [...]

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Judge slashes fine in Iowa abuse case

Patricia Bauer — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:58:08 +0000

By Clark Kauffman in the Des Moines Register, Associated Press: An administrative law judge has ruled that a Texas company accused of abusing and underpaying workers with intellectual disabilities need only pay a fine of $174,660, or 15 percent of the fine proposed by an Iowa state agency. Either side can appeal the ruling. Judge [...]

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Survey: ADA has not improved quality of life

Patricia Bauer — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:17:34 +0000

From USA Today: A survey commissioned by the Kessler Foundation/National Organization on Disabilities finds that the ADA has not made meaningful progress in improving the quality of life for people with disabilities. The survey shows that more must be done to help people with disabilities get ahead, said Carol Glazer, president of the National Organization [...]

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EEOC: Less than 1 percent of federal workers have disabilities

Patricia Bauer — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:59:14 +0000

EEOC press release, Washington Post, Federal Times: A report released this week by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found that people with targeted disabilities still comprise less than one percent (0.88 percent) of the total federal work force. Targeted disabilities include deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorders, mental retardation, [...]

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Obama signs order to increase federal disability hiring

Patricia Bauer — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:54:08 +0000

From CNN: Marking the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, President Obama today signed an executive order to increase government hiring of people with disabilities. “Not dependence but independence: That’s what the ADA was all about,” Obama said at a White House reception attended by several hundred guests, including Cabinet members, legislators and [...]

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ADA brings little progress in the workplace

Patricia Bauer — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:40:05 +0000

Reporting at MSNBC, Eve Tahmincioglu says Americans with disabilities still face overwhelming barriers to employment two decades after the enactment of the ADA. A recent Harris Survey of working-aged people with disabilities found that only 21 percent were employed either full or part-time, compared with 59 percent of people without disabilities. The study, commissioned by [...]

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