As the recession speeds along, some disturbing news out of Texas and Massachusetts where employment programs for people with disabilities are being forced to close due to budget cutbacks and shortfalls:
Massachusetts budget cuts force closing:
Neil Barry wrote a letter to Governor Deval Patrick, urging him to restore $683,000 in state funding for Riverside Career Services, [...]

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Beth Kanter recently posted about the launch of Asociatia Ihtis, a Romanian Center for Independent Living which is launching a worldwide fundraising drive. They’re hoping to raise 1 Euro from 350,000 people to open Romania’s first Center for Independent Living.
The site is in Romanian, but I set up a translated page here and will be [...]

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