Repukes are outdoing Dems in getting people with disabilities placed in jobs!
http://respectabilityusa.com/governors-working-to-enable-people-with-disabilities-to-get-jobs/•Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) quickly improved policies and practices and made it a key point in his State of the State address. He has expanded to 20 Project SEARCH sites in his state, which will help young people with disabilities go straight into jobs instead of a life of dependency. PROJECT SEARCH is already in 43 states and is getting outstanding results for employers, people with disabilities and taxpayers alike.
His specific plan has become a role model for expansion of opportunities for people with disabilities....
•Iowa’s Governor Terry Brandstad (sic) has been working with Sen. Tom Harkin on solutions. He hosted a statewide summit on jobs for people with disabilities and is working systematically to make progress possible.
•Governor Rick Scott (FL) recommended and the Florida Legislature approved $500,000 this year to fund job internships and Supported Employment for people with developmental disabilities. This is in addition to programs that provide job coaches to more than 3,000 people with developmental disabilities.
So I guess they really are job creators!
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A dear friend is the head of the California Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities. As one of her ad hoc workgroup members, I'm in a position to advocate for quality jobs, not McJobs.
http://www.rehab.cahwnet.gov/boards-and-committees/CCEPD
And she's at least as progressive as I am, so that Clunk! sound you hear is probably her jaw hitting the floor. 
service and experience by offering them jobs the moment they switch from ACUs to civilian garb. The truth is far different. Many of us hold jobs in the military that don't transition to civilian employment. Infantrymen don't find equivalent jobs in the civilian sector. Police and law enforcement look askance at Special Forces and other elite military units, considering them trigger happy and too edgy. Not that today's militarized police forces should consider that a bad thing. Society in general views us as damaged goods, fearing we all suffer from PTSD and will go off the first time someone laughs too loud. Vets have higher unemployment than the general population and have higher rates of poverty and homelessness. If someone had told me what I was in for when I was young and signing on the dotted line, I would have beaten the crap out of my recruiter. 
