Hawaii Helps Disabilities

Two Russian mothers have won the right to rebut a journalist’s argument that handicapped children should be euthanased. Aleksandr Nikonov, of the popular tabloid Speed-Info, wrote a column contending that children with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities should be killed so that they don’t suffer, in what he termed ̶...

Better Dead than Disabled?  

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 by Michael Cook 

When assisted suicide is legalised most of thepeople who will die are disabled. And American disability advocatestake a very dim view of it. This is the theme of a hard-hitting seriesof articles in the latest issue of the Disability and Health Journal.

The editor, Suzanne McDermott, of the U...

86% increase in applications over the past 10 years

63% of all applications submitted from all sources are denied benefits

$1,124 average monthly benefit awarded for most recent year reported

106 days average waiting period for first application decision

1.4 years average waiting period for appeal if the first application fails

49 years average age of recipient awarded disability benefits

by David Morrison

On Wednesday President Obama released the National Proclamation declaring the month of October as Disability Employment Awareness Month. A portion of the statements reads:

Each day, Americans with disabilities play a critical role inforging and shaping the identity of our Nation. Their contributions touch us all through personal experience or through that of a family member, neighbor, friend, or colleague. We grow stronger as a Nation when Americans f...

New York Times

By BLOOMBERG NEWS Published: September 29, 2009

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Sears Roebuck & Company had agreed to a $6.2 million settlement in a case under the Americans with Disabilities Act. A federal court judge approved a consent decree in the case, in which Sears was accused of firing employees instead of providing reasonable accommodations for them. In a statement, the commission said the settlement was ...