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		<title>Longmore helped establish disability study as academic field</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/08/17/longmore-la-times-obit-30012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ADA]]></category>
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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>Wait times for disability claim hearings vary widely, report says</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/07/disability-claim-hearings-29051/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NOT2BEMISSED]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[benefit hearings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waiting lists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Diane Suchetka, blogging in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, says Ohioans face longer waits for Social Security disability claim hearings than do residents of any other state. A report this week by Allsup, a for-profit company that helps people file for disability benefits, found Ohioans must wait more than 19 months &#8212; without benefits &#8212; before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harkin: Scant penalty for firms that underpay disabled workers</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/05/underpay-disabled-workers-26920/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atalissa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment/jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intellectual/developmental disabilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wages]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Clark Kauffman in the Des Moines Register: Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) has released federal statistics showing that the U.S. government fined only three of 797 employers that violated federal labor laws by underpaying workers with disabilities over a recent five-year period. Critics say the new statistics confirm what they have long alleged: Companies typically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Security must offer notices in Braille, on CDs</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/21/social-security-access-24449/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ADA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blindness/visual impairments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge William Alsup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security Administration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From San Francisco Chronicle, Bay City News wire/CBS5 San Francisco: A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Social Security Administration&#8217;s benefit notice methods violate federal law because they do not provide equal access for approximately 3 million recipients who are blind or have limited vision. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered the agency to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Thumbs down on $250 checks for seniors, disabled</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/17/thumbs-down-on-250-checks-24327/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/17/thumbs-down-on-250-checks-24327/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[NOT2BEMISSED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From across the political landscape, pundits weigh in  on President Obama&#8217;s proposal to provide a one-time payment of $250 to Social Security recipients to offset the absence of a cost-of-living adjustment this year. A sampling: Des Moines Register editorial: America can&#8217;t afford $250 Social Security bonus USA Today editorial: Pandering to Social Security crowd sacrifices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critics call Obama&#8217;s proposed $250 payments &#8216;pandering&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/16/250-payments-pandering-24248/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elderly]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obama administration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Washington Post: President Obama&#8217;s proposal this week of a $250 emergency payment to seniors and people with disabilities drew fire from critics, who saw it as an attempt to buy political support at a time when Social Security recipients are learning that they won&#8217;t get an increase in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millions wait years for social security disability benefits</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/09/social-security-2-22029/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/09/social-security-2-22029/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clark Kaufmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disability claims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Astrue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security Administration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Clark Kaufmann in the Des Moines Register: A mounting backlog of unresolved disability claims at the Social Security Administration has kept millions of people waiting years to receive benefits to which they are entitled. Over the past year, the number of people waiting to have claims processed has grown by more than 30 percent, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column: College autism program expands hope for jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/05/college-autism-program-21301/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/05/college-autism-program-21301/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asperger's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California State University East Bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Bernick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supplemental Security Income/Social Security Disability Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[university]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Bernick writes in the San Francisco Chronicle that California State University&#8217;s East Bay campus in Hayward is launching a college experiment for people with autism, beginning this fall. Bernick says it is hoped that the program will help people with autism find productive work. Presently, an estimated 70 percent of adults with autism in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recession brings surge in disability benefit claims</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/01/disability-benefits-21120/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NOT2BEMISSED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waiting list/waivers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disability claims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[furloughs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Astrue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Associated Press: Social Security officials say they expect an unprecedented wave of new disability claim applications, as aging and injured baby boomers lose their jobs in the recession. There are worries that the extraordinary increase will add to processing delays that have plagued the agency for years. It&#8217;s expected that the agency will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The disability mess&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/05/12/the-disability-mess-16178/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/05/12/the-disability-mess-16178/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 10:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid/Medicare]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obama administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the New York Times &#8216;Room for Debate&#8217; blog, a conversation among experts about claims of fraud associated with skyrocketing federal disability costs. Officials say the government can realize huge savings by eliminating fraud, abuse and waste in Medicare, Medicaid and the Social Security disability insurance program. The president&#8217;s 2010 budget proposes to spend $4.3 [...]]]></description>
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