Floor Action: May 17, 2012 - Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations by unanimous consent removing the injunction of secrecy.
Resolution: THE WHITE HOUSE,
May 17, 2012.
TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES: I transmit herewith, for advice and consent of the Senate to its ratification, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 13, 2006, and signed by the United... Continue reading ...
Posted by Neil Crowther on Monday, May 14, 2012,
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Welfare reform
Iain Duncan Smith aims to reduce the number's receiving Disability Living Allowance's replacement the 'Personal Independence Payment' by 500,000 'in a bid to combat fraud and abuse'. It's tempting to trot out official government statistics regarding DLA and fraud (less and half of 1% if you're interested, so around 15000) but this is to re-enforce the government's framing of the issue, employed by Duncan-Smith and hungrily supported by various media organs. Recognise instead that disabled... Continue reading ...
Posted by Neil Crowther on Wednesday, May 9, 2012,
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Welfare reform
At a lecture for the think-tank Demos on 16th May, Shadow Work and Pensions Spokesperson Liam Byrne MP set out Labour's broad approach to modernising the welfare state, while keeping true to the principles of its chief architect William Beveridge. Saying that Labour would focus in particular on disabled people and child poverty, Byrne said that 'our starting point has to be making the rights of persons with disabilities a reality'.
