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Article: Blind people find lingering workplace bias
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- March 23, 2008
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NEW YORK - Technology and training have improved to the point
that blind people can adeptly perform a dazzling array of jobs -
including the governorship of New York. The biggest obstacle still
in their way, advocates say, is the negative attitude of many
employers.
The most recent available statistics suggest that only about 30
percent of working-age blind people have jobs. That figure was
calculated more than 10 years ago, but the major groups lobbying on
behalf of blind Americans believe it remains accurate despite
numerous technological advances.
"Most people don't know a blind person, so they assume that blind