Was signed into law. This landmark piece of legislation is the reason that millions of americans cannot be denied a job simply because they live with a disability. And its also the reasons that americans with disabilities are guaranteed the same basic rights as every other person welcomeded to spaces across our country. From our schools, shopping malls, Public Schools and restaurants. There is no question that over the past 29 years, our nation has broken down many obstacles which used to confront people with disabilities. But the truth is that we still have a long path to travel before we can finally say that americans with disabilities has fully achieved equality and justice. At this moment. More than one out of every five disabled americans live below the poverty line, and as is too often the case, it is people from traditionally marginalized communities, including women and people of color who continue to suffer the most. A painful reminder, the disabled community, like our nation
We are literally the largest Minority Group in america and one in every five people in our nation have a disability. The majority of people have a loved one with a disability is 12 and we are the only Minority Group that anyone can join at any time due to accident, illness or aging. Respectfully is very proud to be a member of the ccd, a group of more than 110 National Disability organizations who want a Better Future for people with disabilities. As we have seen recently, overall the Disability Community is quite good at protecting key lifesaving benefits and advancing civil rights. So many great organizations already out there and so many fantastic leaders already in the Disability Movement already, why was there a need to get another disability organization. And what specifically is respectability trying to achieve . Respectability fundamentally is about the opportunity agenda. We know that people with disabilities and the people who love them wants opportunities for education, skil
This is fox5 local news at 10. Right now at 10, Severe Weathera unleashes the d. C. Regionegi downing large trees and flooding metro stations. Could we see more destruction overnight then a terrify close call. A man ride to kidnap a seven year old while he was sleeping in the middle l of the night,igh how the child managed to scare the man off. Ff. Plus a popular d. C. Area radio host arrested for allegedly assaulting his estranged wife. Fox5 local news at 10 starts right now. We begin tonight with the Severe Weather that moved across our ar area this evening. Hi im tony perkins and im shawns yancy. The pictures you see some of so them behind us right now of the damage, the flooding caused by the storm are just stunning, take a look at these pictures. This is the Cleveland Park metrt station, you can see commutersom making their way up the stairs atrazine through the area there andre a flooding the station. Ng t we will have a life update on l the impact this could have on your morning
And torrential rainfalls. You want to be careful driving in it. We have another cell that is intense just to the west of new jersey turnpike south of florence. Moving to the northeast. Columbia and chesterfield in the line of the storm system. It slides to the east as we head to the evening hours. The good news over delaware they got torrential rain 1 to 3 inches of rain. The cell weakens. Its in the past 15 minutes beginning to move across the mouth of the delaware bay and moving into south jersey. This evening is going to be unsettled. The actual system that is triggering the storms will not move through until midnight. The wind gust are reported up to 55 milesanhour. That could cause damage the main concern is the flooded roadways. Flash flood something a good possibility. More deals on that heading over to the melissa. We are tracking the line down to smyrna. We are finding the showers and storms that are slowly moving on off to the north and east. Any additional moisture that we g
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