BAC Rutland

Working with the Kessler Foundation and the National Organization on Disability (NOD) to study the attitudes, experiences, and levels of participation of Americans with disabilities, Harris Interactive has identified 13 very important indicators of the quality of life and standard of living of Americans with disabilities. Since 1986, the Surveys of Americans with Disabilities have measured the gaps on 10 of these indicators between people with and without disabilities; three new indicators were added this year. Download the PDF

HILLSBORO, Ore. — As states face severe budget shortfalls, many have cut home-care services for the elderly or the disabled, programs that have been shown to save states money in the long run because they keep people out of nursing homes. Read the rest of this entry »

For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act’s effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by federal judges, the media, and other national opinion-makers. A year after the Supreme Court issued a trio of decisions in the summer of 1999 sharply limiting the ADA’s reach, another decision invalidated an entire title of the act as it applied to the states. By this time, disability activists and disability rights lawyers were speaking openly of a backlash against the ADA.
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