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For Immediate Release: January 8, 2013
Contact: Jennifer Laszlo MizrahiTel: 202-365-0787
Email:[email protected]
RespectAbility Denounces 9/11 Disability Fraud:
Major New Poll of Nearly 4000 in Disability Community
Shows People with Disabilities Want Jobs, Not Gov't
Benefits:
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3 out of 4 people with disabilities surveyed value a job
andindependence over government benefits; and
Disability community has very little trust in the President,
Congress,or their governors on these issues; and
95% of the disability community is more likely to vote for
candidateswith record on improving opportunities for people with
disabilities.
(Washington, D.C.) As people with disabilities are reeling with
the news that
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the disability system may have been bilked of hundreds of
millions of dollars
by 9/11 responders and others faking disabilities, a new poll
shows that nearly
3 out of 4 people with disabilities in America say it is more
important to them
to "have a job and be independent" than it is "that there is a
government safety
net of benefits so that I will be taken care of." This holds
true across partylines.
Said Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, President of RespectAbilityUSA, a
non-profit,
non-partisan organization devoted to empowering people with
disabilities to
achieve the American dream, "We are disgusted by the actions of
individuals
who defraud taxpayers with fake disability benefits. It makes
the rest of us with
real disabilities, and those who we care about them look guilty,
and it makes it
more difficult to have important conversations about our hopes,
aspirations
and dreams of entering the workforce and being active,
contributing membersof society."Mizrahi, who herself is highly
dyslexic and knows the joys andchallenges of raising a child with
multiple disabilities, continued "The safety
net is critical to many, and if these horrific allegations are
true, then
Americans with disabilities have been robbed of a much needed
dollars from
SSDI and other safety nets by people wrapping themselves in a
false hero
status. Still, this new poll shows overwhelmingly the people
with disabilities
(PwDs) want jobs far more than they want to rely on government.
Too many
people with disabilities (PwDs) are prevented from having a real
job at a real
wage because of employer misconceptions and because the
structure of the
benefit system prevents people from working more. Republican,
Democrat,
Independent -- what comes across clearly in the poll is that
people with
disabilities want to work, pay taxes and be full members of our
society."
According to the U.S. Census, roughly 1 out of every 5 Americans
has a
disability (56 million Americans) andan earlier study released
by Laszlo
Strategiesfound that 51% of Americans have a close friend or
family member
with a disability. This most recent poll released for the first
time today by
RespectAbility included 1,969 people with disabilities and 1,870
friends,
family members, professionals, and volunteers in the disability
community.
Today 70 percent of working age Americans with disabilities are
outside of the
workforce, compared to 28% of people without disabilities.
Companies such as
Walgreens, EY, AMC and others have shown that people with
disabilities can
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make outstanding employees. But many employers deny people
with
disabilities the chance to prove themselves by helping their
companies succeed.
Clearly, while a safety net is seen as vital, what people with
disabilities want
most are jobs.
The poll data shows that the disability community gave the
President, Congress
and their governors failing grades when asked to rate them on a
scale of 1-10 inhow much they trust them to do the right thing to
increase employment
opportunities for people with disabilities. President Obama
rated low, but
highest of the three. There was a partisan split on ratings of
President Obama
with 53% of Democrats rating him 7-10 versus only 7% of
Republicans. There
was not, however a split by party for ratings of Congress.
Less than 1/3 of people surveyed in the disability community
thinks that"society expects people with a disability to work" and
yet 85% of people withdisabilities say that, "having a job is
important to their happiness."
Voting rates among respondents were very high at 90%, however,
of those who
did not vote, nearly 40% faced a barrier to voting because of
their
disability. Nearly 80% of the friends, family, professionals,
and volunteers
polled, helped a person with a disability determine who to vote
for in the last
election.
The survey was fielded online November 6-December 2, 2013. The
survey was
shared via email lists of RespectAbility and numerous other
organizations in
the disability community and on social media.
More information about methodology and poll results can be
foundhere.
Much more data from the poll will be released Friday at 1:30 pm
ET.
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