Renewing the Pledge: Expanding Employment Opportunities for Adults withDisabilities. HUD Report 2000

摘要

On March 13, 1998, President Clinton signed Executive Order 13078, establishingthe Presidential Task Force on the Employment of Adults with Disabilities (PTFEAD). The PTFEAD has the mandate to create a coordinated aggressive national policy to help adults with disabilities gain employment at a rate that is as close as possible to that of the general population. Under the Presidents Executive Order, the Department is required to submit to the Presidential Task Force a report on its examination of HUD programs to see if they can be used to create new work incentives and to remove barriers to work for adults with disabilities. The Secretary asked the Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity to assume the lead in assuring that HUD's report was prepared and submitted. HUDs report was prepared with the assistance of a Department-wide Working Group established by the Deputy Secretary in May 1999. The report was submitted to the Presidential Task Force by Secretary Andrew Cuomo on September 16, 1999. The Secretary told the Presidential Task Force that HUD realizes that persons with disabilities face many challenges to living in the mainstream of American society and that their difficulty in obtaining decent, safe, sanitary, affordable and accessible housing affects their ability to find work and access public services and transportation.