However, low abilities in reading are also a serious handicap to gaining access to the labour market (OECD and Canada 2000).
It is by now generally accepted that the main causes of poverty are related to access handicaps: access to education and health, as well as access to productive resources (land, credit, markets, transport networks, electricity, telecommunications) but also to institutions (markets, social networks, etc.).
One doubts that most people knew that the young Hillary Clinton had worked to get handicapped kids access to school; or helped register migrant workers in Texas; or investigated segregated academies in the South; or started a legal aid clinic in Arkansas; or worked for the Children's Defense Fund instead of going to Wall Street.
An academic study concludes that the 1990 federal Americans With Disabilities Act, which barred discrimination against the handicapped in access to buildings and employment, reduced the number of small and medium-size retail businesses across the country by 1.2% to 2.3%.
In 1978, the city constructed a wheelchair ramp to provide access to the handicapped.
Student demands included establishment of an "intercultural center" for minority meetings, a rabbi to minister to Jewish students and complete access for the handicapped to all buildings.
The advantages of information technology are pronounced in places like Manhattan, advocates for the disabled say, because crowded streets, the lack of access for the handicapped to cabs and subway stations, and other factors complicate their lives.
Handicap parking and handicap access must be integrated into the community's design.
"This is a handicap to any designer".
Each year, the city installs new handicap access equipment to comply with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.
