Archive for March, 2009
President Obama removes stem cell research restrictions
US News and World Reports has an article that says the President has removed the restrictions of federal funding of stem cell research. Starting with the Bush administration, only a few stem cell lines were allowed to be used for research because of religious questions of the destruction of embryos during experimentation. A few stem [...]
Vancouver, Canada sets new standards for disabled outside US
Canada.com has an article about all the work that the Canadian government has put into Vancouver to help the disabled. For those of us in America, it may be a little confusing why we would write up about this, but overseas, the disabled evidently do not exist. From airlines that can and do leave the [...]
Housing Bill HR 1408 offers accessibility for disabled
WASHINGTON, DC (March 10, 2009) – People with mobility impairments have limited access to most homes constructed with federal assistance because there are currently no federal standards for accessibility features that these homes must include. However, new legislation introduced today by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-IL, the Inclusive Home Design Act (HR 1408) would greatly increase [...]
Verizon to sell your personal data
Verizon Wireless is sending out letters to give you a one time chance to opt-out of an enormous marketing scheme. This letter (which may already be in your mailbox) is a long legalistic letter giving you a chance to get out of a large spamming scheme. If you do nothing, your name will be sold [...]
Woman doesn’t let disability stop her dream
The News-Record has a story about a young woman that had a aneurysm in her spine which turned her into a paraplegic when she was a teenager. She decided to teach and finished her bachelor degree. After running into several school systems that did not want a disabled teacher in the classroom, she found one [...]
Slavery alive and well in the US
The Des Moines Register reports that dozens of mentally disabled men were forced to work in deplorable conditions at a chicken processing company. The men were all housed in a 101 year old school house that had the windows boarded up to keep the cold out – the men used space heaters to keep from [...]
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