Barack Obama: Advocate for People with Disabilities

Jacob Clark — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:40:13 EDT

Consider these facts:

54 million Americans experience some form of disability; working age persons who live with disabilities are almost 3 times as likely to live below the poverty line than those with no disabilities; each state is responsible for it's own Disabilities Department or Department of Employment Rehabilitation--a few states, such as California, have progressive programs for people with disabilities; many states have substandard or no programs at all.

Individual states have failed their disabled communities. Isn't it time the Federal Government stepped in to make the lives of the disabled as full and rewarding as they can be in California?

Barack Obama has a detailed 9-page plan to resolve these problems. In this post I will give you a very brief overview of the plan and a link where you can read it for yourself.

Bush-E-nomics: The Misery Index

Julie — Wed, 09 May 2007 03:52:29 EDT

MISERY INDEX (April 2007)
6 1/4 Years of Misguided Bush Economics

Once again courtesy of our friends at ADA Link

These figures represent the percentage differences from Jan 01 to Dec. 06:

1. Overall Unemployment
Number: +14.2
Rate: +7.1

2. Black Unemployment
Number:+6.5%
Rate: +2.4%

3. Hispanic Unemployment
Number: 5.9%
Rate: -6.8%

4. Unemployed Women who Maintain Families
Number: +4.5%
Rate: -7.5%

5.Youth Unemployment (Ages 16-19)
Number: -2.87%
Rate: +10.1%

6.Avg. Length of Unemployment
Weeks ['01]:12.6 ['05]: 15.9 +26.2%

7.Long Term Unemployment
27 Weeks and Over: +61.2%

8.Percent of Total Unemployed: +43.4%

9.Permanent Job Losers: +35.2%

10.Loss of Manufacturing Jobs: -16.8%

11.Persons in Poverty: +12.4%

12.Food Stamp Recipients: +37%%

13.Health Insurance
Number NOT covered: +13.1%

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Barack Obama: Advocate for People with Disabilities

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