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Katrina, Judge Roberts, and the ADA

  • Organization: ADA Watch
  • Author: Jim Ward
  • Date Created: Tuesday, September 13, 2005
  • Submitted: Tuesday, September 13, 2005
  • Attachment(s): HTM
As people with disabilities have been disproportionately impacted by both the poverty and the devastation in New Orleans, ADA Watch's Jim Ward calls on the Senate-and all Americans-to use the Roberts hearings to debate the role of government in responding to our most vulnerable citizens and to call attention to the assault on mainstream legal protections like the ADA and programs like Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.