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- AMERIGROUP Executive Speaks Before Congress on 'Medicaid's Critical Role for Americans with Disabilities'
- To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Investors, Julie Loftus Trudell, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, +1-757-321-3597, or Media, Kent Jenkins, Jr., Senior Vice President, Media Relations, +1-202-218-4925, both of AMERIGROUP Corporation VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMERIGROUP Corporation (NYSE: AGP) was invited to speak today before the U.S. House...
- Research articles 2008-01-16
- Remarks following a meeting with the President's Commission on care for America's returning wounded warriors
- October 16, 2007 Good afternoon. Thanks for coming. Welcome to the Rose Garden. I appreciate Senator Dole and Secretary Shalala and other members of their Commission for joining me today. Welcome. I just finished an inspiring meeting with Secretary Gates and Acting Secretary Mansfield, with service members who...
- Research articles 2007-10-22
- Goodwill Industries Lobbies for a Diverse and Skilled Workforce
- More than 60 Goodwill representatives from across the United States will gather on Capitol Hill on October 24 to advocate on behalf of people with disabilities, low-wage workers and other job seekers who are trying to enter the workforce for the first time or advance their careers. "The U.S....
- Research articles 2007-10-22
- Goodwill Industries Lobbies for a Diverse and Skilled Workforce; Goodwill Holds Inaugural Advocacy Day on Oct. 24.
- Byline: Goodwill Industries International ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 22 AScribe Newswire -- More than 60 Goodwill representatives from across the United States will gather on Capitol Hill on Oct. 24 to advocate on behalf of people with disabilities, low-wage workers and other job seekers who...
- Research articles 2007-10-22
- Remarks by the President, Senator Bob Dole and Secretary Donna Shalala on Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors Report Implementation
- WASHINGTON -- The Rose Garden 4:25 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Thanks for coming. Welcome to the Rose Garden. I appreciate Senator Dole and Secretary Shalala and other members of their commission for joining me today. Welcome. I just finished an inspiring meeting -- with Secretary...
- Research articles 2007-10-16
- Federal civil rights legislation and state sovereign immunity
- ABSTRACT State governments employ millions of people, and provide services to millions of Americans as well, some of which are of a governmental nature, but many of which are similar to those offered by the private sector. While the employment practices of most private employers are governed by a...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- National Council on Disability Calls for Federal Legislation to Prohibit Telecommunications Discrimination for People With Disabilities
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Mark S. Quigley of National Council on Disability, +1- 202-272-2004 or +1-202-272-2074 TTYWASHINGTON, Dec. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Council onDisability NCD today released a policy paper calling on Congress and theAdministration to end telecommunications and information servicesdiscrimination for people with disabilities."The Need for Federal Legislation and...
- Research articles 2006-12-28
- TV Worldwide's Assistive Technology Internet TV Channel AT508.com Selected to Webcast World Congress & Exposition on Disabilities
- TV Worldwide, a fast-growing web-based global TV network, announced that its Assistive Technology Internet TV Channel, AT508.com, had again been selected by the World Congress & Exposition on Disabilities to produce a webcast of the November 17-19, 2006 show from the Philadelphia Convention Center. The free live-to-tape, archived webcast at...
- Research articles 2006-11-17
- Disabled ADA: How a Narrowing ADA Threatens To Exclude the Cognitively Disabled, The
- I. INTRODUCTION Congress, in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990(1) ADA, found that upwards of forty-three million Americans have one or more physical or mental disabilities.2 More current United States Census Bureau estimates put that number at 49.7 million.3 Included among those disabled are 12.4 million cognitively disabled Americans...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- National Council on Disability Statement Regarding the Voting Rights Act Reauthorization
- WASHINGTON, May 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- National Council on Disability NCD chairperson Lex Frieden today released the following statement regarding the Voting Rights Act reauthorization: NCD wishes to express its strong support for reauthorizing the provisions of the Voting Rights Act VRA set to expire in 2007. NCD is an...
- Research articles 2006-05-08
- Congress may cut 2007 IDEA funding: advocacy needed to stop the "downward spiral" expected next year.(PEOPLE)(Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act)
- In coming weeks, the House and Senate will vote on the budget for the federal government for 2007. If Congress follows the President Bush's budget on funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act IDEA, the federal share of special education funding will go into...
- Research articles 2006-04-11
- CRITICAL POINT IN THE DISABILITIES MOVEMENT: HOW WILL TENNESSEE V. LANE AFFECT CLAIMS BROUGHT UNDER TITLE II OF THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT?
- INTRODUCTION The rights of nearly 50 million Americans living with a disability are in jeopardy.1 Congress sought to safeguard the rights of disabled individuals with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ("ADA").2 One of the Act's major goals was to ensure that persons with disabilities received equal access to...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- Newsmakers.(AUDIOLOGY IN DEPTH)(Interview)
- Name: Rep. Jim Ryun Profession: Public Service Position: U.S. Representative from the Second Congressional District since 1995 When I was in high school my hearing loss was finally diagnosed, but...
- Research articles 2006-03-21
- Budget Reconciliation is the Darkest Day, Says National DisabilityAdvocates
- WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Sue Swenson, executive director of The Arc of the United States and Stephen Bennett, president and CEO of United Cerebral Palsy, two of the nation's leading non-profit organizations advocating for people with disabilities, issued the following statement in response to the Congress' passage of...
- Research articles 2005-12-21
- Disability Organizatons to Announce Opposition to Judge Samuel Alito (1/2)
- News Advisory: WHO: ADA Watch/National Coalition for Disability Rights, Alliance of Disability Advocates, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, National Council on Independent Living, World Association of People with Disabilities, and others WHAT: Disability organizations will announce their opposition to the nomination of Third...
- Research articles 2005-12-13
- Congress likely to give IDEA $100 million increase in FY06.(Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)
- The state grant program under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is likely to receive a $100 million increase next year above the current funding level of $10.59 million. The Senate Appropriations Committee recommended $10.69 billon for state special education grants, and the...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- Catholic Charities USA Urges Congressional Appropriators to Protect Vital Programs for Low-Income Families, Elderly, and Disabled
- ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -b As budget negotiations continue in Congress, Catholic Charities USA is urging House and Senate appropriators to adequately fund programs that help poor and vulnerable children, families, elderly, and persons with disabilities. "We recognize that Congress is faced with many difficult choices. In...
- Research articles 2005-06-15
- Disabled passengers cruise for ADA rights on foreign ships.
- Does the Americans with Disabilities Act ADA apply to cruise ships sailing under foreign flags? The U.S. Supreme Court is considering the question in a case argued earlier this year. The attorney for three plaintiffs who alleged that a cruise line failed to provide...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the Editor)
- Pope left lesson on value of human life We are so grateful to have lived in the period of time when Karol Wojtyla was pope. He was a messenger of hope to people of all faiths. His beginning and ending message of...
- Research articles 2005-04-07
- Applying Section 5: Tennessee v. Lane and judicial conditions on the congressional enforcement power.
- Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment grants Congress the "power to enforce, by appropriate legislation," the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses. Yet in the past seven years the Supreme Court has invalidated five different laws--including three landmark civil rights laws--as exceeding Congress's power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment. This...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
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