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  2. Golden Buckeye - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Buckeye program is a free service of the Ohio Department of Aging. Ohio citizens age 60 and over automatically qualify for membership in the program and receive a Golden Buckeye card in the mail. Adults age 18 to 59 years old with disabilities as defined by Social Security also qualify for the card and can apply for one at most Ohio ...

  3. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers - Wikipedia

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    On July 5, 1884, Congress approved the Board's recommendation to change the eligibility requirements for admission, allowing any veterans disabled by old age or disease to apply without having to prove a service-related disability. In effect, the Federal government assumed responsibility of providing care for the aged veterans; what had been ...

  4. American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities - Wikipedia

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    The American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities (ACCD) was, in the mid-1970s to early 1980s, a national consumer-led disability rights organization called, by nationally syndicated columnist Jack Anderson and others, "the handicapped lobby". Created, governed, and administered by individuals with disabilities —which made it a novelty at ...

  5. Connection interrupted: Federal internet discount begins to ...

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    That’s too steep for Drljaca, 65, who lives on limited disability income. He had only been able to afford it thanks to a federal government program that discounted his internet service. That ...

  6. Timeline of disability rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1889 – Ugly laws were enacted in Denver, Colorado and Lincoln, Nebraska in 1889. 1894 – An ugly law was enacted in Columbus, Ohio in 1894. 1891 – An ugly law was enacted for the state of Pennsylvania in 1891. This law contained language applying to cognitive disability as well as physical disability.

  7. Ohio Department of Job and Family Services - Wikipedia

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    jfs .ohio .gov. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services ( ODJFS) is the administrative department of the Ohio state government [1] responsible for supervising the state's public assistance, workforce development, unemployment compensation, child and adult protective services, adoption, child care, and child support programs.

  8. Unethical human experimentation in the United States

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    The family of the person who died sued the government for gross negligence, but a federal judge ruled in favor of the government in 1981. Serratia tests were continued until at least 1969. Also in 1950, Dr. Joseph Stokes of the University of Pennsylvania deliberately infected 200 female prisoners with viral hepatitis.

  9. Disability in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Department of Labor's 2014 rules for federal contractors, defined as companies that make more than $50,000/year from the federal government, required them to have as a goal that 7 percent of their workforce must be disabled people. In schools, the ADA requires that all classrooms must be wheelchair accessible.