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EEOC Charges Health Magazine Harassed and Fired Worker With Disabilities
The EEOC has filed suit against Your Health Magazine, a health publication based in Maryland, alleging it violated the ADA when it harassed and fired a bookkeeper because of her disabilities. In its suit, the EEOC stated the company harassed and fired a female bookkeeper because of her disabilities. In August 2008, the company owner learned that the bookkeeper had Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and began a pattern of harassment. He stated she could not do her job because she had ADHD, spoke to her in a condescending and abusive manner, threw papers and pencils in her direction and belittled her in front of coworkers. The hostile work environment culminated in her termination.
http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/9-29-10t.cfm

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GA to Move People Out of State Hospitals in Olmstead Settlement
The Justice Department and the state of Georgia have reached a settlement that people with mental illness and developmental disabilities can obtain services in their communities rather than be forced to live in institutions. Georgia will stop admitting individuals with developmental disabilities to its state-run hospitals by July 1, 2011, and will transition all individuals with developmental disabilities already living in the hospitals to community settings by July 1, 2015. The state also agreed to set aside $15 million for specific targets for creating housing aid and community treatment for people with disabilities. The state will spend $62 million next year to make the improvements.

Change to Seclusion and Restraint Bill in US Congress Concerns Advocates
Last spring, the the US House of Representatives passed a bill that limits the the use of restraint and seclusion in schools to situations where there is imminent danger, and banned such approaches from being included in students' IEPs. However, the Senate has now introduced their version of the bill allowing restraint and seclusion to be included in IEPs for students if they have a two-year history of behaviors that create an "imminent danger of serious bodily injury in school."

US Census Data and People with Disabilities

About 35% of people with disabilities were employed compared with 72% of people without a disability. North Dakota had the highest employment-to-population ratio for people with disabilities, whereas Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia. and District of Columbia5 had the lowest employment-to-population ratio for people with disabilities.
In 2009, 19.5 million people, or 9.9 percent of the no-ninstitutionalized population aged 16 to 64, had a disability.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/acsbr09-12.pdf

TX state school

$12 Million of Security Cameras: Part of TX's Answer to Institutional Abuse?
The Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) is installing security cameras at all of their 13 institutions across the state. The San Antonio State Supported Living Center was one of the first to be fully equipped with a 123 cameras "watching over" 282 residents in common areas. The $12 million project is expected to be finished in January of 2011. Once the cameras are in place, DADS plans to hire about 185 people to monitor the images. This is in response to years of documented reports of abuse and neglect in the facilities, including a report last year of staged "fights" between residents set up by staff.

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No Cost of Living Increase in Social Security for 2011
Monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits will not increase in 2011.

Religious Groups Sign Solidarity Statement to Promote Hiring of People with Disabilities
Religious organizations signed a a Statement of Solidarity that states "all people share a common humanity and that not having a job does irreparable harm to a person's self-esteem and makes it more difficult for someone to realize his or her potential. Understanding that poverty so often accompanies disability, and that a lack of employment may mean that adequate food, housing and medical care are not attainable, the undersigned religious organizations, denominations and faith groups commit to working within our organizations and with other groups to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities."
http://www.aapd.com/site/c.pvI1IkNWJqE/b.6240861/k.D594/IDAC_Statement_of_Solidarity.htm

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