[nfbwatlk] FW: National Disability Employment AwarenessMonth Statistics

Wed Oct 12 16:46:43 UTC 2011

Perhaps this is a case of "don't ask, don't tell!" (har)

Mike Freeman
sent from my iPhone

On Oct 12, 2011, at 9:39, "Mary Ellen" <gabias at telus.net> wrote:

> I noticed the same odd statistic, Ben.  Everyone occasionally says or writes
> things that are hysterically funny because of the misuse of language.
> Remembering some of my linguistic errors still makes me blush.  When I was a
> rehabilitation teacher working with older clients, one recently widowed and
> recently blind man was attempting to hire a housekeeper, but he kept firing
> them.  He had been totally dependent on his wife.  I commented in a case
> report that he fired the housekeepers because he expected them to do
> everything for them that his wife used to do.  Oops!  My supervisor called
> me into her office and had a very good laugh about what I'd written.  
> 
> "Do you realize what you just said?" She could hardly ask the question
> between guffaws.
> 
> I stood in front of her, blushing crimson, and thought for a few minutes.
> Then I said, "I didn't mean to say what I did, but, however inadvertently, I
> spoke the truth."  She left the room.  Somewhere in a dusty archive, that
> unedited case file remains. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Prows, Bennett (HHS/OCR)
> Sent: October 12, 2011 6:56 AM
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> Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] FW: National Disability Employment AwarenessMonth
> Statistics
> 
> Hey,
> 
> Those statistics are interesting.  But I read with fascination the first few
> sentences, "In the U.S. 54 million people have a disability
> *    Of that, 12.3% are women, compared to 11.6 % of men"  
> 
> What are the rest?  (smile.)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 7:51 PM
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> Subject: [nfbwatlk] FW: National Disability Employment Awareness Month
> Statistics
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> 
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> The Bureau of the Census has complied a series of statistics for National
> Disability Employment Awareness Month regarding individuals with
> disabilities. These include:
> 
> 
> 
> *    In the U.S. 54 million people have a disability
> *    Of that, 12.3% are women, compared to 11.6 % of men 
> *    West Virginia has the highest percentage of people with a disability
> at 18.8% of the population
> *    Utah has the lowest percentage of people with a disability at 8.9%
> of the population 
> *    Difficulty hearing is experienced by 10.2 million people, 5.8
> million of these are 65 or older 
> *    Visual difficulties account for 6.5 million people
> *    Approximately 13.5 million people have trouble concentrating or
> making decisions, 2.1 million of these are 5 to 17 years of age
> *    Roughly $35.3 billion has been received by veterans for service
> connected disabilities for 2008
> *    Around 21% of the population ages 16 and older with a disability are
> below the poverty level 
> *    Nearly 72% of disabled people 16 and older are not in the work force
> 
> 
> For additional information on these statistics, please visit:
> 
> http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_
> editions/cb11-ff14.html
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