Download the PDF Foreword As budgetary pressure threatens to cut military spending past
the almost $1 trillion in cuts enacted since the beginning of the Obama administration …

ROBERT L. GOLDICH Congressional Research Service ince 1969, eight major studies have
suggested a drastic overhaul of the military nondisability retirement system-retirement based …

The transition from military service to civilian employment can be a challenging process for
veterans and their families. In addition to critical cultural adjustments, veterans are also …

This article examines and challenges some of the assumptions, procedures and standards
implicit in the Canadian Forces (CF) treatment of the disabled From a human rights …

R esponding to the end of the Cold War and the restructuring of the US military, in 1994 the
US Congress enacted a statute to encourage noncareer military service. It prohibited …

[Excerpt] The federal government, through Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), supports a
number of benefits for qualified former members of the Armed Forces. Some of these …

Soldiers have always worked. And, like others engaged in “high-risk” occupations (eg, hard
rock miners, oil derrick operators, medical care workers), they routinely get hurt on the job …

Crippled Justice, the first comprehensive intellectual history of disability policy in the
workplace from World War II to the present, explains why American employers and judges …

From workplace accidents to polio epidemics and new waves of immigration to the returning
veterans of World War II, the first half of the twentieth century brought the issue of disability …

The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law on July 26, 1990. This article
reviews and summarizes the impact of the ADA on the public sector, and discusses two key …