disability & work

[Marta Russell]

I should have added whether it (Clinton's strategy) will work or not is
highly questionable.  Private industry has done its utmost to defeat
workers with disabilities employment discrimination cases in court.  As
one law professor put it no group except prisoners fair as poorly.  And
there is other resistance from business (not to wanting to pay for
reasonable accommodations, to give one example).
Alot of what we see around the Work Incentive Legislation passing is pure
hype.

Marta

Michael,

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