It’s been a little over a year since Mark Perriello assumed leadership of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD). The former strategist for the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Leadership Institute put an immediate emphasis on political involvement, saying in his introductory press release: “We must enlist our friends, family members and [...]
After two days’ worth of posts about Paul Ryan and the impact his “Path to Prosperity” would have on people with disabilities, it’s important to remember that he is the Republican Party candidate for vice president, not chief executive. And if the HBO series, Veep, holds any kernels of truth about what it’s like to [...]
In yesterday’s post, we noted that the Republican Party presidential candidate Mitt Romney had thus far not responded to a questionnaire from the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) about how his policies would impact people with disabilities were he elected to serve in November. However, his choice of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to [...]
News that Mitt Romney selected Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan as his Vice Presidential running mate for the GOP nomination overshadowed even the closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games in London, England, this past weekend. Most of the nation probably heard Ryan’s name for the first time back in 2011 when the Chair of the House [...]
The issue of voter suppression is having its moment in the national spotlight, thanks to the newly proposed Voter ID legislation in several states considered key to winning the 2012 presidential election. This POLITICO.com op-ed by historian Charles Postel revisits our country’s history of voter suppression in the name of partisan politics. Garry Trudeau even [...]
Traveling in August typically means getting away for some rest and relaxation; but for Patricia Shiu, a recent 10-day, eight-city trip was anything but a vacation. The Buffalo News reporter Matthew Parrino caught up with the director of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) during the last stop of her [...]
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that the Department of Defense (DOD) is one of the leading employers of people with disabilities. The military’s culture of taking care of its own and “No Excuses” attitude combined with access to technological advancements give it certain advantages in both the recruitment and retention of these [...]
If adding 163,000 jobs to the U.S. economy is being “stuck in low gear” as The Wall Street Journal reporters Neil Shah and E.S. Browning put it in the opening paragraph of their August 3 article, does that make the .3% increase in unemployment for people with disabilities a case of driving in reverse? Let’s hope [...]
Back in a high school civics course, I learned the Latin phrases de jure and de facto during a unit covering the Civil Rights Movement and racial segregation in the United States. It must have been a somewhat common piece of knowledge passed along in that context. When you start typing one of those terms [...]
For those who didn’t get enough data parsing and statistical analysis in posts from last Thursday and Friday, we kick off the week looking at a new report from the Center for Corporate Equality (CCE), which recently published Review of OFCCP Enforcement Statistics Related to Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and Vietnam Veterans Readjustment [...]