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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Fellow Federationists:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Those who were at the national convention may recall the resolution I sponsored to urge the passage of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity
Act. We have made swift progress and now hope to see it through the signing. Here is a press release.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Yours,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Justin Salisbury<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">National Federation of the Blind Applauds House Passage of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Urges President Obama to Sign into Law<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Baltimore, Maryland (July 10, 2014): The National Federation of the Blind today applauded the passage of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)
by the United States House of Representatives and urged President Barack Obama to sign this important legislation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said: “The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act is the product of dialogue between advocates
for Americans with disabilities and members of Congress. We applaud Congressional leaders for listening to the National Federation of the Blind and other organizations of people with disabilities and incorporating much of our input into the final bill. This
legislation, which has now passed on bipartisan votes in both houses of Congress, will reduce the number of young people with disabilities being tracked into sheltered, subminimum wage jobs and preserve a strong rehabilitation system for the blind and other
Americans with disabilities. We urge President Obama to sign this critically important act as soon as it comes to his desk.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText3" align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">About the National Federation of the Blind<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText3" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations
of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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