Increasing Disability Discrimination , in the USA

 

APRIL 06, 2011 Wed Disability-Discrimination Complaints Soar Some 30,000 disability-discrimination charges are expected to be filed with the U.S. government in 2011, a 42% increase since 2009, when a law signed by President George W. Bush broadened the definition of disability, A. Dean Bennett and Scott E. Randolph write in the Employee Relations Law Journal. Under the revision of the Americans with Disabilities Act, nearly everyone with any form of mental or physical impairment is considered disabled, the authors say. Source: Is Everyone Disabled Under the ADA?