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		<title>Home services disappearing as states slash Medicaid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 15:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Wall Street Journal: Around the country, shrinking state budgets and rising health-care costs are forcing drastic cuts in home services to people with disabilities. Because federal mandates restrict what states may cut inside Medicaid, states are often cutting basic services that help people with disabilities remain in their own homes. This is happening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>91 ADAPT protesters arrested at White House</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/27/91-adapt-arrested-29327/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AP/USA Today, ABC News, Politico.com,  Washington Post: Authorities say they have arrested 91 people who gathered at the White House, many in wheelchairs, to protest what they termed the administration&#8217;s failure to provide sufficient support for the Community Choice Act. The legislation would allow people with long-term disabilities to use federal funding to pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disability protesters arrested in Atlanta</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/14/disability-protesters-arrested-24067/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A handful of protesters were arrested in the courtyard of the Sam Nunn Federal Center in Atlanta Tuesday during a demonstration calling for better long-term care options for people with disabilities. Representatives of the Office of Homeland Security refused to disclose how many had been arrested and whether they were being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disability advocates rally at Georgia capitol</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/12/adapt-atlanta-23909/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Some 200 disability advocates rallied at the Georgia state capitol Monday, dispersing only after securing a meeting with Gov. Sonny Perdue&#8217;s chief of staff. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday. The protesters are seeking state compliance with the Supreme Court&#8217;s 1999 Olmstead decision, which directed states to provide community-based supports for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online British documentary follows young adults with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/06/online-british-docusoap-23508/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Down syndrome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Guardian: A British &#8220;docusoap&#8221; is following the humor and drama of five young adults living together in Brighton. Sounds like a typical teen reality show, but it has a catch: all five housemates have genetically-based learning disabilities. The online series, &#8220;The Specials,&#8221; features Lucy, Lewis, Sam, Megan and Hilly, ages 19-23, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CA advocates sue to block massive cuts in home care services</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/01/ca-advocates-lawsuit-23344/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[health aides/direct support workers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times&#8217; LA Now blog: Advocates filed suit in federal court in San Francisco today to block more than $53 million in impending California budget cuts that would eliminate or drastically reduce the in-home services received by more than 130,000 disabled and elderly people. Among services to be cut are help with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger halts evictions of disabled residents</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/18/schwarzenegger-evictions-22612/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adult living]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lily Hixon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times, Pasadena Star News, KABC: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced today that a group of disabled renters who had received eviction notices would not be losing their homes. &#8220;Your eviction notice is being terminated,&#8221; he said. Residents of the Regency Court Apartments in Monrovia had been told that everyone under age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Op-ed: Planned community needed for adults with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/18/op-ed-planned-community-disabilities-22595/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adult living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Sacramento Bee, Dr. Louis A. Vismara says he&#8217;s working with a group to develop a planned community on 577 acres in the Sacramento area. It would serve vulnerable adults including people with autism, senior citizens and those with other disabilities. A founder of the MIND Institute at UC Davis and the father [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apartment complex tells tenants with disabilities to clear out</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/18/apartment-complex-evictions-22502/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times: An apartment complex in Monrovia, CA, has sent eviction notices to all of its residents with disabilities, some of whom have lived in the affordable housing complex for more than a decade. The facility&#8217;s managers told tenants that there had been a mistake and they never should have been allowed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Lose the Training Wheels&#8217; sets kids in motion</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/15/lose-training-wheels-21979/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Boston Globe: Lose the Training Wheels bike camps helped kids with disabilities across the nation learn to ride two-wheeled bicycles this summer. The program boasts an 85 percent success rate in teaching young people with disabilities how to ride a bike. &#8220;We take a huge â€˜I can&#8217;t&#8217; and turn it into a huge [...]]]></description>
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