Letter to the Editor – Disability Employment Awareness Month
October is Disability Employment Awareness Month. It seems this month shares other designations. They are all important but disability is such a transient condition that everyone will pass through this state at one point in their life. This issue is everyone’s issue.
The explosion of technology has made “reasonable accommodations” all the more reasonable and has expanded the jobs available to the disabled. A “job” is much more than a paycheck. Everyone needs to accomplish something to validate their self-worth.
That is not to belittle the value of the earnings generated from a real job. Instead of drawing from, the “disabled worker” contributes to that same tax base. Depending government subsidies only enslaves that segment of the population that depends on them for their existence.
Having jobs will liberate not only the current disabled community but potentially all of us.
Stanley H. Wotring, Jr.
Chairman, Lynn Disability Commission
The explosion of technology has made “reasonable accommodations” all the more reasonable and has expanded the jobs available to the disabled. A “job” is much more than a paycheck. Everyone needs to accomplish something to validate their self-worth.
That is not to belittle the value of the earnings generated from a real job. Instead of drawing from, the “disabled worker” contributes to that same tax base. Depending government subsidies only enslaves that segment of the population that depends on them for their existence.
Having jobs will liberate not only the current disabled community but potentially all of us.
Stanley H. Wotring, Jr.
Chairman, Lynn Disability Commission
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