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		<title>Court: Chipotle restaurants violated ADA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From KGTV-10News, San Diego, Business Week:
A federal appeals court has ruled that two Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants violated the ADA by denying customers in wheelchairs the &#8220;Chipotle experience&#8221; of watching their food prepared because the restaurants&#8217; counters are too high.
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		<title>Australian state sees tripling of DS-related abortions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Melbourne, Australia, Herald Sun:
Health Department officials in the Australian state of Victoria report that the number of women who terminated their pregnancies after receiving a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome almost tripled in the decade ending in 2006.
Government figures showed 146 abortions for Down syndrome in 2006, including five late term abortions, compared [...]]]></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 on Disability.
&#8220;While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selected coverage of ADA anniversary</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/29/ada-anniversary-29918/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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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 addressed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EEOC: Less than 1 percent of federal workers have disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/29/eeoc-federal-employees-report-29908/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, mental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama signs order to increase federal disability hiring</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/26/obama-executive-orde-29898/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
&#8220;Not dependence but independence: That&#8217;s what the ADA was all about,&#8221; Obama said at a White House reception attended by several hundred guests, including Cabinet members, legislators and activists for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ADA brings little progress in the workplace</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/26/ada-workplace-29891/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Harkin: ADA is about &#8216;the right to live in the world&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/26/tom-harkin-ada-is-about-the-right-to-live-in-the-world-29886/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tom Harkin in Politico.com:
&#8230; at its heart, the ADA is simple. In the words of one activist, this landmark law is about securing for people with disabilities the most fundamental of rights: “the right to live in the world.” It ensures they can go places and do things that other Americans take for granted.
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite ADA, much of Boston remains inaccessible</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/26/boston-remains-inaccessible-29880/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Abel reports in the Boston Globe that thousands of pedestrian ramps, walkways and government buildings around Boston, including polling places and schools, remain inaccessible to people with disabilities twenty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act became the law of the land.
Advocates say the city and state have often failed to comply with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty years later, ADA still sparks debate</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/26/ada-still-sparks-debate-29876/</link>
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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 positive [...]]]></description>
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