Tag Archives: Disability Rights
Disability, Starvation the goverment way
TweetGood Morning The question I have today is why it is that when a disabled person applies for Disability it takes 3 months ,no 6 months, no one year, no Two years ,oops that may be wrong too, to receive benefits? When will someone step in and investigate and change this out of control system. [...]
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Alcohol: The Other Wage Gap
TweetBack in 2006, a study by the Reason Foundation showed that drinkers make 10-14% more than their non-drinking counterparts. The discrepancy was attributed to social capital: "Social drinking builds social capital," said Stringham, an economics professor at San Jose State University. "Social drinkers are networking, building relationships, and adding contacts to their Blackberries that result [...]
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Take M.E. Seriously
TweetI know this is long, but please bear with me. May 1st was ‘Blogging Against Disablism Day’. 2010 was the first time I’d heard about the blogging event. I read several interesting posts, including one with a poem asking for the world to look past the wheelchairs, walking frames, and white sticks of the “kids [...]
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Disabled Parenting
Tweet I recently read (ok, skimmed, it was finals week) a great book called With the Power of Each Breath: A Disabled Women’s Anthology. There was an article in it called “Choosing A Child” that said (I’m paraphrasing here) there are dozens of books on raising a disabled child, but none on people with disabilities [...]
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Sexism Meets Ableism