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		<title>Longmore helped establish disability study as academic field</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an obituary, the Los Angeles Times, describes Paul K. Longmore as a major founder of the field of disability studies, and says he helped establish it as a field of academic research and teaching. Longmore died August 9 at the age of 64. &#8220;He devoted his life to making this a better and more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul K. Longmore, disability advocate and historian, was 64</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Shapiro, writing on NPR&#8217;s &#8216;Shots&#8217; health blog, salutes the legacy of disability advocate, scholar and historian Paul K. Longmore, who died Monday at the age of 64. Longmore was a professor of history and director of the Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University. He lived with complications of polio contracted when he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey: ADA has not improved quality of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selected coverage of ADA anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s changed in 20 years since ADA passage &#8212; Joseph Shapiro and Tony Cox on NPR&#8217;s Talk of the Nation Looking back on 20 years of disability rights &#8212; By Ben Mattlin on National Public Radio. An excerpt: &#8230; When I was 27, the ADA became law. It didn&#8217;t get me a job. But it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty years later, ADA still sparks debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the nation&#8217;s disabilities law marks its 20th anniversary today, it&#8217;s still the target of criticism and derisive humor, CNN reports. The law is credited with creating opportunities and transforming lives, yet critics say it imposes unfair financial burdens on businesses. An excerpt: As the anniversary approached, an internet chat board sampling turned up countless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columnist: ADA brings progress, but U.S. lags on jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Albert R. Hunt, writing in Bloomberg Businessweek, says the ADA has transformed the nation and served as a model for much of the rest of the world. Still, daunting challenges remain, particularly in employment, Hunt says. Experts estimate that the real unemployment rate for people with disabilities probably exceeds 50 percent. At the same time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressman: More work needed to achieve ADA&#8217;s promise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Providence Journal, Boston Globe: Rep. James Langevin (D-Rhode Island) writes that only a generation ago, people with disabilities were commonly treated as second-class citizens. Langevin, who was paralyzed at the age of 16 as a result of an accident, says the 20th anniversary of the ADA offers an opportunity not just to celebrate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: &#8216;Shameful wall of exclusion&#8217; must come down</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/26/shameful-wall-of-exclusion-29839/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the San Jose [CA] Mercury News, Sara Triano recalls the words of President George H.W. Bush at the signing of the ADA twenty years ago. &#8220;Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down.&#8221; After two decades of work to end the segregation of people with disabilities, Triano says, the wall of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column: Despite ADA, challenges remain</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/25/column-despite-ada-challenges-remain-29836/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Roger Bradley in the Ft. Myers [Florida] News Press: How will our community reduce the 80 percent unemployment rate for people with disabilities in an area already saturated with unemployment? How will our community provide adequate transportation services which are so essential to avoid isolation of the disabled community during an era affected by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer celebrates ADA&#8217;s legacy of civil rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marking the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Cincinnati writer and advocate Deborah Kendrick says the law has brought lasting improvements to American society. An excerpt from her essay in the Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch: &#8230; the ADA sent a clear message to the American people &#8212; indeed, to the world [...]]]></description>
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