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TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction 528 II. History of Legislative Intent to Support the Disabled Community 531 A. The Javits Wagner-O'Day Act and AbilityOne 531 B. The Rehabilitation Act of [...], Congress should create a new special interest group within the 8(a) program for disabled business owners. This proposal will achieve the legislative goals of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), particularly as they pertain to disability rights and employment policy. The Rehabilitation Act and the ADA focus on supporting and integrating disabled individuals in the business sector. Establishing a special interest group for disabled-owned businesses will support the disabled community through a federal small business assistance program. This proposal would also circumvent any issues resulting from AbilityOne's restrictive nature. AbilityOne, a federal program designed to encourage nonprofit organizations to employ disabled individuals, allows participating nonprofits to pay disabled workers a subminimum wage. This proposal would give disabled individuals more economic opportunities and federal aid outside of an AbilityOne participant. Similarly, disabled business owners would be able to avoid several problems related to the 8(a) program that have prevented them from fully utilizing the program in the past, including restrictive eligibility requirements, drifting oversight of the program, and misallocation of program resources. By creating a special interest group in the 8(a) program specifically for disabled business owners, the federal government and Congress can support an invaluable source of economic activity and make progress towards realizing the congressional goals surrounding disability rights and employment policy within the existing government framework.

ABSTRACT: People with intellectual and developmental disabilities continue to face discrimination in the organ transplant process despite federal laws prohibiting such discrimination. Some states have passed legislation specifically prohibiting discrimination [...]

Employment discrimination is, according to research, the most prevalent kind of AIDS-related discrimination. It has been known for a long time that employers' usual reason for discrimination, fears of casual AIDS transmission, were unwarranted. Most cases of employment discrimination due to AIDS have been brought under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 also covers people with AIDS, and the EEOC has ruled that the act forbids the denial of health insurance coverage to AIDS patients.

For many years there has been a national debate over the moral and legal obligations owed to infants born with physical or mental disabilities. The crucial issue is, to what [...]