As our community continues to grow, the diversity of the community will increase, resulting in a need for awareness of one another's uniqueness. When the topic of disabilities comes up we, as a community, tend to become uncomfortable.

In our first Member Mini-Series Meeting we took time to learn from one another how we can create a community in which members support and identify ways that we, as a society, can change our attitudes that cause us to view disabilities as an abnormality rather than just a difference, like gender or race.

Essayist and cultural critic Barbara Ehrenreich has always specialized in turning received wisdom on its head with intelligence, clarity, and verve. With some 12 million women being pushed into the labor market by welfare reform, she decided to do some good old-fashioned journalism and find out just how they were going to survive on the wages of the unskilled--at $6 to $7 an hour, only half of what is considered a living wage. So she did what millions of Americans do, she looked for a job and a place to live, worked that job, and tried to make ends meet.

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