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		<title>Report: UK adults with autism condemned to poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From BBC, [UK] Independent: A report by the National Autistic Society accuses the British government of underserving adults with autism, condemning them to lives of poverty. Of the 300,000 adults with autism, the report said, only one in six are employed full time even though most want to work. A third live without job or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President urges employers to welcome workers with disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when unemployment and poverty among people with disabilities stand at dramatically high levels, the federal government kicked off Disability Employment Awareness Month with a proclamation from President Obama. Data compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that only 18.4 percent of working-aged people with disabilities had jobs as of August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haitian parents increasingly abandon kids with disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Miami Herald (with video): A growing number of children with disabilities are being abandoned in Haiti by parents who cannot cope, advocates say. The children are being left for dead along roadsides, hospital courtyards and sewers. In this grindingly poor country, disabled children seem to disappear, hidden away as burdens in a culture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawaii to halve payments to poor, disabled residents</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Honolulu Advertiser: Hawaii officials say the state&#8217;s Department of Human Services will reduce by half its monthly payments to poor people and those with temporary disabilities, from $469 to $234 per person. They say they must act to make sure the program does not run out of money before the end of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans with disabilities hit hard in downturn</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/12/06/recession-disabilities-5495/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Last hired, first fired&#8217; From US News &#38; World Report: The recession is hitting Americans with disabilities particularly hard. Already facing staggering rates of unemployment, they are now experiencing a sharp increase in layoffs. &#8220;People with disabilities tend to be the last hired and the first fired,&#8221; says Rick Diamond, director of employment services at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Longmore: An open letter to disability rights constituency</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest commentary: What Kind of Advocacy Do Americans with Disabilities Really Need? By Paul K. Longmore Ever since Sarah Palin&#8217;s acceptance speech, the &#8220;needs&#8221; of children with disabilities have gotten a lot of press. Palin pledged to be a &#8220;friend and advocate&#8221; for those children. News stories have reported the excitement of parents and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rud and Ann Turnbull: Disability community, beware of Palin</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/09/15/guest-commentary-turnbulls-3199/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest commentary: By Rud and Ann Turnbull To the disability community in America: Be cautious. Governor Palin&#8217;s comments at her party&#8217;s convention bring to mind a famous line from Virgil&#8217;s Aeneid: &#8220;Timeo Danaos et donas ferentes&#8221;: I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts. On the one hand, Gov. Palin appealed to the hopes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Neglected&#8217; diseases threaten poor, cause disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/06/25/diseases-2478/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From USA Today: Tropical diseases commonly occur among poorer people in the U.S., leaving behind such lingering long-term problems as intellectual disability, heart disease and epilepsy, according to a report issued this week. Study author Peter Hotez said the diseases go untreated in hundreds of thousands of poor people who live mainly in inner cities, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;U.S. reluctance to sign treaty on disabilities is painful, puzzing&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/06/25/treaty-2471/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dick Thornburgh and Paul Steven Miller, writing in the Seattle Times, urge that the U.S. sign the UN International Treaty on the Rights of People with Disabilities. The treaty could benefit one-quarter of humanity, they say: the 650 million people, as well as their families, who live with disabilities. As former officials of two different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing market tough for people with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/03/05/housing-market-tough-for-people-with-disabilities-1626/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Associated Press in the Houston Chronicle, MSNBC and elsewhere: The affordable housing shortage plaguing Washington, D.C., and other metropolitan areas has come down particularly hard on the disabled, who have higher rates of poverty and lower rates of employment. At the same time, much of what is affordable is off-limits to them because [...]]]></description>
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