NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE BRINGS ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT AGENDA TO CAPITOL HILL AMID APPROVAL OF DEBT-CEILING PLAN

National Disability Institute and its partners urge lawmakers to include political, economic and social change in fiscal reform legislation to put people with disabilities back in charge of their financial futures(Washington, D.C. – Aug. 3, 2011) – As the U.S. averted default with approval of a last-minute compromise plan to raise the ceiling on the nations $14.3 trillion debt while cutting spending and certain entitlement programs, National Disability Institute , brought its economic empowerment agenda for people with disabilities to Capitol Hill on Aug.