[blindlaw] Employment matters

[adrijana prokopenko]

Thanks. I put this post on the blind kids list too, so I was trying to
be sensitive to how I word things not to scare parents too much.
(Smile).

 I really think if we all act a community it will help us more than
anything, sometimes laws help, educating helps too, but if we are not
united, we are in big trouble and from what I see, blind people face
lots of trouble after high school because of transportation and other
issues, which makes it way harder to get a job.

On 10/23/17, Daniel McBride via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello Adrijana:
>
> I cannot imagine why your post would make anyone mad. I did want to point
> out the following. The Americans With Disabilities Act became effective
> July
> 26, 1990. In 2010, a study was conducted to compare the status of
> employment
> of the disabled prior to the Act to the employment status of the disabled
> after 20 years of the Act. The study found that the overall, meaningful
> employment of the disabled had not improved one little bit through those 20
> years. So, the proof is in the pudding.
>
> I have been personally discriminated against numerous times over 30 years
> of
> job seeking as a blind attorney. What I discovered through the process is
> that the ADA does not prevent discrimination. Rather, it is simply another
> "filter" through which prospective employers must strain us to deny us
> employment.
>
> Daniel McBride
> Fort Worth, Texas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of adrijana
> prokopenko via BlindLaw
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 12:53 PM
> To: blindlaw-request
> Cc: adrijana prokopenko
> Subject: [blindlaw] Employment matters
>
>  Don't mean to make anyone feel bad by this post, but I have a feeling that
> the unemployment of the blind all over the world is extremely high, even
> among blind intelectuals. I guess the reasons for this vary, but I often
> hear stories of how blind people get discriminated and are denied jobs just
> because they are blind, not to mention that may get low paid jobs or jobs
> way away from their homes that they often refuse, because of lack of
> support
> regarding transportation.
> Some still get jobs and are successful, but in order to keep solving this
> problem together, I think we need to unite and keep supporting the rest who
> need support. The more of us there are, the better it is and if we also get
> the lawyers, the parents, teachers  and others to keep supporting us in
> whatever way possible, I think that this would help us go forward in many
> ways. Not many parents of blind children are rich to have business
> established, but if you happen to have some, know of others who do or could
> get the word across to as many people as possible about these problems,
> hope
> you can really do so and even maybe join the NFB jobs list and contribute
> there. If you also wish to join my facebook group, you can look it up as:
> Jobs for the blind
>
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