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Equal Employment Opportunity MILWAUKEE - A federal magistrate judge in Milwaukee has entered a consent decree resolving a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Rexnord Industries, LLC, the agency announced today.  According to the EEOC's suit, Rexnord violated federal law by firing an assembler at its Stearns Division in Cudahy, Wis., because it regarded her as having a disability after two unrelated incidents which ended in ambulance trips to the hospital.  The EEOC charged that Rexnord failed to properly analyze whether the assembler was a safety threat, which requires employers to use the best available medical information to evaluate the seriousness and likelihood of any risk. Such alleged conduct violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  The EEOC filed suit against Rexnord, EEOC v. Rexnord Industries, LLC , No. 2:11-cv-00777-NJ (E.D. Wis.), in August 2011 after first trying to rea

HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan WASHINGTON – To help prevent thousands of people with disabilities from experiencing homelessness or unnecessary institutionalization, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced the availability of approximately $120 million in funding for state housing agencies to provide long term project-based rental assistance to extremely low-income persons with disabilities, many of whom are transitioning out of institutional settings or are at high risk of homelessness.  ............... “HUD and HHS are working together to help states reduce health care costs, improving quality of life for persons with disabilities, and helping to end homelessness as we know it,” said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan. Authorized by the Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2010, the Section 811 PRA will award rental assistance funds to state housing agencies (or other appropriate entities) that have formed partnerships wit

Nightmares in Children linked to Psychosis Nightmares can be traumatic for children, but new research suggests kids who have lots of frightening dreams may be at an increased risk for psychotic experiences come adolescence. "We certainly don't want to worry parents with this news," Professor Dieter Wolke, a psychologist at the University of Warwick in the U.K., said in a statement. "However, nightmares over a prolonged period or bouts of night terrors that persist into adolescence can be an early indicator of something more significant in later life," he added. Nightmares are common in childhood during the REM (rapid eye movement) part of the sleep cycle, what's considered the deepest part of sleep. They usually contain vivid and disturbing content, and you often immediately wake from and remember the dream,the National Sleep Foundation notes. Wolke said about three out of four children under the age of 12 experience them.