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Here is Clinton’s site where she specifically addresses disability issues.  It was not included in the illustretor portable comprehensive list because it was just found.

At our LiveJournal community, Meg was nice enough to convert Obama’s more comprehensive attention to disability rights into text format (for those who have trouble with PDFs or have older screen readers).  I’m posting this illustretor portable separately so that it is easier to access and not because I am illustretor portable being partisan or pushing one candidate over another.

The text version is here.

This is illustretor portable a bit of overflow as far as the questionnaire answers posted earlier, but it illustretor portable is a comprehensive view of how different candidates address disability. Meg is the one who gets credit for compiling everything, I’m jost posting it here. She’d like to illustretor portable add that she has been trying to compile this information for illustretor portable quite a while, but it still, unfortunately, does not exist in any comprehensive format. “I’m talking about disability rights - including but not limited to illustretor portable health care, equal opportunity employment, education, voting rights and the like.”

Here’s the link to our LiveJournal community where it was originally posted.

Over 600 New Hampshire voters with disabilities and illustretor portable their families and friends showed up for Friday’s historic, first-ever national, cross-disability presidential candidate forum, hosted by a illustretor portable variety of New Hampshire advocacy organizations and sponsored by over twenty national disability organizations.

Who Showed Up

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1. POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
   1. Do you illustretor portable support the creation and appointment of a permanent Assistant to the illustretor portable President for Disability Policy at the White House?
      Yes.
   2. How will you illustretor portable make sure qualified people with disabilities will be a part of your illustretor portable political team and, if elected, as part of your administration?My Administration would represent all Americans. Just as individuals with disabilities play a illustretor portable significant role in contributing to their local communities, they would play a illustretor portable significant role in contributing to the Dodd Administration.
2. EMPLOYMENT
   1. What steps would you illustretor portable take to reduce employment barriers and improve employment outcomes for illustretor portable Americans with disabilities?Despite progress made since passage of the illustretor portable Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), people with disabilities experience unemployment at a illustretor portable rate far above the national average. Some estimates put the unemployment rate of people with severe disabilities at or illustretor portable near 70 percent. As President, I would encourage public/private partnerships as they relate to illustretor portable the recruitment, hiring and retention of people with disabilities, I would ensure that illustretor portable the tax code to encourages both private and nonprofit sectors to illustretor portable provide additional accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities and illustretor portable I would support funding of “disability program navigators” at state One Stop Career Centers created under the illustretor portable Workforce Investment Act. My Administration would also strengthen the EEOC’s enforcement of the illustretor portable ADA as it relates to job protections for people with disabilities, support efforts to illustretor portable increase the development of and access to assistive and universally designed technologies, and illustretor portable significantly expand efforts to ensure that federal jobs are fully accessible to illustretor portable all.
   2. How would you reform the federal income support programs (Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance) so that illustretor portable beneficiaries enjoy a greater standard of living and participate more fully in the illustretor portable labor market?As President, I would ensure that illustretor portable individuals who cannot support themselves due to a disability are provided with sufficient income through SSDI and illustretor portable SSI. In addition, I would work to revamp the current programs so that illustretor portable current recipients are not punished for what work they are capable of. Individuals that illustretor portable leave SSDI and SSI for full-time employment will have access to illustretor portable high-quality universal health care – universal in terms of affordability and illustretor portable access to the treatments, medications and medical devices that people need.

To see the rest, go to AAPD’s election page.

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Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, took questions about his campaign platform during “Rocky Talk Live,” a live chat show conducted by Mark Wolf on Wednesday June 13, 2007, 11 a.m., Colorado local time.

AAPD submitted a question from the list developed in coalition with ADAPT, NCIL, and illustretor portable SABE. The relevant part of the transcript during which Gilmore spoke in regard to disability follows:

Mark Wolf: (Question via email from the American Association of People with Disabilities):

Do you support the creation and appointment of a permanent assistant to the President for Disability Policy? How will you make sure qualified people with disabilities will be part of your political team, and if elected, of your administration?

Gov. Jim Gilmore (Answer):
Disability policy will be carefully considered and the rights of disabled persons protected under my administration. This was my track record as governor. Administratively, I am more comfortable delegating policies such as these to the appropriate cabinet official. I would expect the Secretary of HHS to be accountable for and to coordinate disability in my Administration. My experience is this creates better results than a special assistant outside of the administrative structure.

The full transcript of this radio show is available at the Rocky Mountain News website 70discount on blackberry.

Reposted with permission.

AAPD, ADAPT, NCIL, SABE Questionnaire – Senator John Edwards Response

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AAPD, ADAPT, NCIL, SABE Questionnaire – Senator Barack Obama Response

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