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Old 01-05-2019, 11:25 AM   #31
Griff
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Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post

If we were rich, and had plenty of engineers, we could develop wheelchairs that could easily manage curbs and even climb stairs.
Alas, people with disabilities are not generally rich.

https://disabilitycompendium.org/sit...nualReport.pdf

In thirty states, the employment percentage gap between those with a disability and those without
was 40 percentage points or greater; only three states showed an employment percentage gap less than 33.3 percentage points.


Doing sensible things to help close that gap would seem to benefit us all.
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