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The Crisis


         The real effect of these beliefs...







                        STAGNATION: Youth with disabilities             JOB       UNEMPLOYMENT: 71% of working
                        engage in very little school-based physical               age Americans with disabilities are
                        activity, are offered less healthy after-school           unemployed yet want to work
                        activity and primarily sedentary
                        amusements at structured programs












                        ADVERSE HEALTH: 40% of people                             POVERTY: More than one in five
                        with disabilities are obese vs 25% of                     (21.2%) US civilians who are of
                        people without                                            working age with disabilities are
                                                                                  living in poverty
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