[Nfbnet-members-list] National Federation of the Blind Applauds Senator Michael Bennett: Senator Supports Legislation to Integrate Workers with Disabilities

[Danielsen, Chris]

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CONTACT:

Chris Danielsen
Director of Public Relations
National Federation of the Blind
(410) 659-9314, extension 2330
(410) 262-1281 (Cell)
<mailto:cdanielsen at nfb.org>cdanielsen at nfb.org

National Federation of the Blind Applauds Senator Michael Bennett

Senator Supports Legislation to Integrate Workers with Disabilities

Baltimore, Maryland (September 22, 2015): The 
<http://www.nfb.org>National Federation of the Blind applauds Senator 
Michael Bennett (D-CO) for cosponsoring the Transitioning to 
Integrated and Meaningful Employment (TIME) Act (S. 2001). Senator 
Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) 
<https://nfb.org/national-federation-blind-applauds-introduction-legislation-integrate-workers-disabilities>introduced 
this legislation to repeal Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards 
Act, in order to incentivize the transitioning of workers with 
disabilities into integrated, meaningful employment, and to phase out 
the discriminatory practice of paying workers with disabilities as 
little as pennies per hour. Senator Bennett is the first cosponsor of 
Senator Ayotte's legislation. Companion legislation has also been 
introduced in the House of Representatives by Representative Gregg 
Harper (R-MS) as H.R. 188 and has forty-four cosponsors.

Mark A. Riccobono, 
<http://www.facebook.com/NationalFederationoftheBlind>President of 
the National Federation of the Blind, said: "The National Federation 
of the Blind and our partners representing the fifty-five million 
Americans with disabilities know that low expectations, not 
disability, are the true barriers that prevent people with 
disabilities from living the lives we want. We applaud Senator 
Bennett for joining his colleague from across the aisle in 
recognizing that current segregated employment practices are based on 
over seventy-five years of entrenched but false thinking about the 
capacity of people with disabilities. We strongly urge his colleagues 
in both houses of the United States Congress to work in the same 
bipartisan spirit and support this legislation, thereby embracing a 
future in which the next generation of workers with disabilities, 
including my two young daughters, enter the workforce without the 
discriminatory presumptions that exist today, and in which these 
workers are able to achieve their full potential in the workplace and beyond."


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the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create 
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From: Danielsen, Chris
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 4:01 PM
To: Walls, Kyle
Subject: Need your help

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Christopher S. Danielsen, J.D.
Director of Public Relations
National Federation of the Blind
200 East Wells Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
Office: (410) 659-9314, extension 2330
Mobile: (410) 262-1281
Email: <mailto:cdanielsen at nfb.org>cdanielsen at nfb.org
Twitter: @NFB_Voice

The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the 
characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise 
the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create 
obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life 
you want; blindness is not what holds you back.

<https://nfb.org/make-gift>Make a gift to the National Federation of 
the Blind and help ensure all blind Americans live the lives they want.

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