[blindlaw] The Census does not track the blind

Steve P. Deeley stevep.deeley at insightbb.com
Fri Jun 12 14:30:07 UTC 2009


Is the data broken out?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chwalow, Judith" <JChwalow at nfb.org>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] The Census does not track the blind


> The ACS also tracks blind. For the first time a government sponsored
> project defines sensory deprivation with two separate questions; deaf
> and blind. The census does not. It has never separated deaf from blind.
> When trying to find this information I was directed by the census, to
> try this survey, which I did and found the information I was looking
> for. It is in the set of questions under number 17.
>
> A. Judith Chwalow, DrPH
> Director of Research, Jernigan Institute
> National Federation of the Blind
> 1800 Johnson Street
> Baltimore, MD 21230
> 410 659 9314 x2404
> jchwalow at NFB.org
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Ford, Tim (CDPH-OLS)
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 6:56 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: [blindlaw] The Census does not track the blind
>
> This line of e-mails seems to me to be well outside of a blind lawyer
> list, not every political or governmental action is something this list
> should be discussing, especially since there have been dozens of notes
> amongst what seems to be a small group of contributors.  So this is just
> one person's vote that perhaps we can move on to more list-appropriate
> topics?
>
> Sincerely,
> Tim Ford
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of ckrugman at sbcglobal.net
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:10 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] The Census does not track the blind
>
> and its pretty pathetic that with all this so-called or investment the
> blind have an unemployment rate of over 70%. Due to the lack of planning
> for employment and effective support if this were a business proposal
> the rate of return would be pretty poor based on the way the government
> has handled support and enforcement of laws affecting the blind.
> Chuck
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Pepper" <b75205 at gmail.com>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:06 AM
> 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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