Clinton made the connection to using disabled people as the "new reserve army of labor" to fight inflation. On his poverty tour Clinton explained how people with disabilities fit into the macroeconomy, “...there are a couple of options [ways to keep America's economy growing without inflation]. You can bring more people from welfare or from the ranks of the disabled into the work force, or you can go to these areas where you invest in them and you get more consumers and more workers at the same time.”
I'm working on a paper about this very subject now.
best, Marta Russell
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote:
> I've always wondered why more people don't make the connection between
> civil rights legislation and the depletion of the reserve army of the
> unemployed.
>
> --
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
> Chico, CA 95929
>
> Tel. 530-898-5321
> E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
-- Marta Russell author Los Angeles, CA Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract http://www.commoncouragepress.com/ramps.html