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[Robert Leslie Newman]

Here are a couple of other interesting facts:

#1 90% of the 30+ blind folks who are employed are Braille users! 

#2 Here in Nebraska since we have had a training center for the blind,
teaching non-visual techniques, 87 percent of the graduates are employed. 

#3 If you go back into the archives of the Braille Monitor, and search for
an article written by Doctor James S. Nyman, which is a script of a speech
he gave at the White cane banquet sponsored by the Omaha NFB chapter, you
will find a different number of how many of the blind are unemployed. That
is to say, if in figuring the unemployment rate of the blind, by using the
same criteria that the Department of Labor uses to figure unemployment of
the general public, then you get a number of unemployed blind being more
like 38%.

(Note- The year after Doctor Nyman gave his speech, I too got my keynote
speech for the White Cane  banquet placed in the Monitor - I didn't give the
speech, I wrote it and a blind actor posing as Lewis Braille gave it. I
wrote it as if we had contracted with Lewis Braille to evaluate the status
of Braille usage and teaching in the USA, today.) [That was the year of
Lewis's 200 birthday.[