Washington, D.C. – As the 2016 presidential campaign season gains speed, RespectAbility is reaching out to all of the campaigns to highlight the importance for all candidates to speak directly to voters with disabilities and their families by offering specific plans for a better future. RespectAbility introduces its newest project – The RespectAbility Report – a nonpartisan [click to continue...]
Read The RespectAbility Report! Clicking on the link will open a new tab with the report. The RespectAbility Report is a nonpartisan political commentary on the 2016 U.S. elections with a focus on disability issues. Launched in June 2015, The RespectAbility Report is nonpartisan and neither rates nor endorses candidates. Chief political writers for The [click to continue...]
Please see the story below about Jeb Bush, who has not yet officially announced his candidacy, doing an event tomorrow to celebrate the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act in Mississippi. Earlier Gov. Phil Bryant made Mississippi Employment First for people with disabilities. Also make sure to read our piece about Hillary Clinton’s video failing [click to continue...]
RespectAbilityUrges Hillary: Don’t Forget People with Disabilities! Washington, D.C. – Yesterday the Hillary Clinton campaign released its launch video, which included many different individuals and families who represented diversity in America. But nowhere in the video could you see anyone with a disability. This is a key voting group across America, including the four first [click to continue...]
Washington, DC. As presidential candidates and political leaders gather for CPAC, RespectAbility, a non profit, non partisan organization devoted to empowering people with disabilities to achieve the American dream, urged candidates from all parties to put people with disabilities into the “Opportunity Agenda.” Said Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, President of RespectAbility, “Our nation was founded on [click to continue...]
Today in New Hampshire Sen. Rand Paul made an unfortunate comment about people with disabilities when he told a group of New Hampshire legislators that people on disability assistance were “gaming the system” and that “over half the people on disabilities are anxious or have back pain – join the club.” Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMpY73jutGc [click to continue...]
Read the webinar transcript Download the accessible PowerPoint presentation Watch the webinar on YouTube with live embedded captions Republican Whit Ayres, PhD is a leading Washington, D.C. political consultant with over 30 years of experience in polling and survey research for high profile political campaigns and associations. As Founder and President of North Star Opinion Research, [click to continue...]
By Huge Margins Swing Voters in Key Battleground States More Likely to Vote for Candidate Committed to Jobs for People with Disabilities 56% of likely voters say they, a family member, or a close friend has a disability NEW Bi-partisan poll of key battleground states presented by top pollsters, Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg PhD of [click to continue...]
Governor (and your team), I thought you’d want to see this as it is very relevant to your work. Now that WIOA is law, every state will have to make a comprehensive, performance based plan to expand job/career opportunities for people with disabilities. We are working with a team of experts to develop a scorecard [click to continue...]
