[Nfbc-info] Fwd: [Nfbnet-members-list] National Federation of the Blind Applauds Senator Michael Bennett: Senator Supports Legislation to Integrate Workers with Disabilities

[Chela Robles]

FYI Great News!


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Subject: 	[Nfbnet-members-list] National Federation of the Blind 
Applauds Senator Michael Bennett: Senator Supports Legislation to 
Integrate Workers with Disabilities
Date: 	Tue, 22 Sep 2015 16:15:09 -0500
From: 	Danielsen, Chris via Nfbnet-members-list 
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*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
*
*CONTACT:
*
Chris Danielsen
Director of Public Relations
National Federation of the Blind
(410) 659-9314, extension 2330
(410) 262-1281 (Cell)
cdanielsen at nfb.org <mailto:cdanielsen at nfb.org>

*National Federation of the Blind Applauds Senator Michael Bennett
/
Senator Supports Legislation to Integrate Workers with Disabilities
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*Baltimore, Maryland (September 22, 2015):* The National Federation of 
the Blind <http://www.nfb.org> applauds Senator Michael Bennett (D-CO) 
for cosponsoring the Transitioning to Integrated and Meaningful 
Employment (TIME) Act (S. 2001). Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) introduced 
this legislation 
<https://nfb.org/national-federation-blind-applauds-introduction-legislation-integrate-workers-disabilities> 
to repeal Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, in order to 
incentivize the transitioning of workers with disabilities into 
integrated, meaningful employment, and to phase out the discriminatory 
practice of paying workers with disabilities as little as pennies per 
hour. Senator Bennett is the first cosponsor of Senator Ayotte’s 
legislation. Companion legislation has also been introduced in the House 
of Representatives by Representative Gregg Harper (R-MS) as H.R. 188 and 
has forty-four cosponsors.

Mark A. Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind 
<http://www.facebook.com/NationalFederationoftheBlind>, said: “The 
National Federation of the Blind and our partners representing the 
fifty-five million Americans with disabilities know that low 
expectations, not disability, are the true barriers that prevent people 
with disabilities from living the lives we want. We applaud Senator 
Bennett for joining his colleague from across the aisle in recognizing 
that current segregated employment practices are based on over 
seventy-five years of entrenched but false thinking about the capacity 
of people with disabilities. We strongly urge his colleagues in both 
houses of the United States Congress to work in the same bipartisan 
spirit and support this legislation, thereby embracing a future in which 
the next generation of workers with disabilities, including my two young 
daughters, enter the workforce without the discriminatory presumptions 
that exist today, and in which these workers are able to achieve their 
full potential in the workplace and beyond.”


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*About the National Federation of the Blind

*

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.


*From:* Danielsen, Chris
*Sent:* Tuesday, September 22, 2015 4:01 PM
*To:* Walls, Kyle
*Subject:* Need your help

Hi Kyle,

This will seem a strange request, but I need for you to paste the 
contents of the attached Word document into an email and just send that 
email to me. Whenever I try this I always lose or screw up formatting. 
Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Chris


Christopher S. Danielsen, J.D.
Director of Public Relations
National Federation of the Blind
200 East Wells Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
Office: (410) 659-9314, extension 2330
Mobile: (410) 262-1281
Email: cdanielsen at nfb.org <mailto:cdanielsen at nfb.org>
Twitter: @NFB_Voice

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.

Make a gift <https://nfb.org/make-gift> to the National Federation of 
the Blind and help ensure all blind Americans live the lives they want.



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