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| Celebrating Fair and Open Access to Housing One step at a time in the fair housing journey. | 05/02/10 | |
| Latest Buzz on Disability | Could Psychiatric Drugs Be Fuelling A Mental Illness Epidemic? A few years ago, while writing an article about the merits of psychiatric medications, I looked at whether the number of adults receiving a federal disability payment due to mental illness had significantly changed since 1987, which was the year that Prozac was introduced. Our society's use of psychiatric medications, of course, has soared since that time, and here's what I discovered: The number of adults, ages 18 to 65, on the federal disability rolls due to mental illness jumped from 1.25 million in 1987 to four million in 2007. Roughly one in every 45 working-age adults is now on government disability due to mental illness. | 04/29/10 |
| Disability Aware & Business | JJ's List Applauded for Doing the Most with the Least JJ's List won praise, even when it didn't win the USA Today contest. | 04/25/10 |
| Disability Aware & Business | Big win for employers in disability bias case Employers frequently worry that if they discharge a disabled employee, they will be sued for disability discrimination even if they had a good reason for terminating the employee. That’s because disabled employees may claim their disability was a motivating factor in the decision. Until recently, that was enough to win at least a partial victory in court. Fortunately, that’s no longer the case. | 04/25/10 |
