[blindlaw] The Census does not track the blind

[Steve P. Deeley]

Where did you get these stats; they are very interesting.

Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Pepper" <b75205 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] The Census does not track the blind


> The American Community Survey only tracks the senosry impaired.   That
> incluides the deaf.  We need to know about the blind, the deaf blind, the
> visually impaired and the color blind.  We need to know the status of the
> blind in society, where we need to change things and we cannot do that 
> when
> the government does not track this specific minority.  Including us in a
> general class is not going to do it.
>
> There is no reason to ignore the blind and we need this done NOW, not 10
> years from now, NOW.  All of this should have been done 36 years ago with
> the passing of the Rehabilitation Act.
>
> Our economy spends 50 billion dollars a year on the blind, most of that is
> in government payouts to support the blind. The US Government pays out
> $266,000 to each blind person over their lifetime on average in public
> assistance.  If you mutliply the 50 billion figure over the past 36 years 
> of
> the Rehabilitation Act, the US economy has spent 1.8 Trillion dollars on 
> the
> blind.  The US government should be tracking the results of that 
> expenditure
> but it is not doing it, because the results are terrible.
>
> So who cares if the census is going to have to be redone, do we have to
> spend another 500 billion dollars to wait for a real census just so the
> government policies can maintain us at a 70% unemployement rate?
>
> James Pepper
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