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Navigating the Maze of Benefits

The World Institute on Disability (WID) has created two very useful websites to help you navigate the bewildering realm of benefits. One website, www.db101.org, is for disability benefits in general and the other, vets101.org, is specifically for veterans. Disability Benefits…

Hiring 100,000 People with Disabilities?

Yep, that’s the mandate set down by President Obama.  “The Executive Order requires the hiring of an additional 100,000 people with disabilities within the federal government over the next 5 years,” said Kathleen Martinez, Assistant Secretary for the Office of…

Forward to the Past! COBOL lives again

In 2000 (Year2K) the general perception of mainframes & COBOL was that they were a technology in their final days, soon to be replaced by modern technologies and modern languages. A funny thing happened on the way to the future…