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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Folder Title: National Employ the Handicapped Week
Box: Box 84 (1988)
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THE OF SEAL STATES OF THE GREAT
National Employ the Handicapped Week,
1988
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The American creed of opportunity for all has proven rich soil for the growing
realization that everyone gains when people with disabilities are employed.
Disabled people with jobs contribute to prosperity, take a more active part in
their communities, and lead more satisfying lives; and their employers gain
productive employees. Since the end of World War II, America has celebrated
National Employ the Handicapped Week in recognition of the many achieve-
ments of workers with disabilities and of those who employ them. During this
week we also reaffirm our desire and determination to continue fostering
employment opportunities for Americans who have disabilities.
Each year we remove more barriers that have prevented people with disabil-
ities from taking jobs. New technology, job training and placement programs,
an increasingly accessible working environment, and greater public under-
standing all contribute to disabled people's competitiveness in the job market.
More remains to be done, though, as we seek to ensure enhanced employment
opportunities for the disabled. Only one-third of working-age Americans with
disabilities are employed, so we must keep on opening up more ways for them
to gain job skills and overcome job discrimination and transportation, commu-
nication, and physical barriers to employment. We are all enriched immeasur-
ably when everyone who wants to work can and does find employment and
every citizen is free to follow the path to full and equal participation in the life
of our communities and country.
The Congress, by Joint Resolution approved August 11, 1945, as amended (36
U.S.C. 155), has called for the designation of the first full week in October of
each year as "National Employ the Handicapped Week." This special week is
a time for all Americans to join together to renew their dedication to meeting
the goal of increased opportunities for people with disabilities.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning October 2, 1988, as National
Employ the Handicapped Week. I commend and urge all governors, mayors,
other public officials, leaders in business and labor, and private citizens to
continue to help meet the challenge of ensuring equal employment opportuni-
ties and full citizenship rights and privileges for disabled Americans.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of
October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirteenth.
Ronald Reagan