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Traveling_Home Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-09-07 10:14 AM
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ADAPT begins disability rights protests in Chicago
ADAPT, the nations leading direct action disability rights organization, gathers in Chicago to put the breaks on people flooding into institutions and nursing homes. Illinois ranks 41st in providing options to expensive facilities and has a history of being one of ADAPT�s ten worst states at providing home and community alternatives. Rather than progress toward integration and choice, Illinois Governor Blagojevich has failed to reasonably support Money Follows the Person legislation and is planning to reopen an institution for people with developmental disabilities.

http://www.adapt.org/freeourpeople/aar/chicago/report01.htm
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pop goes the weasel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-09-07 12:05 PM
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1. Money Follows the Person
I'm sure Blagojevich figures he is enforcing the law by making sure that the person the money follows is incarcerated for life for the crime of being disabled.

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