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Programs allow disabled to do jobs from their homes PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 08 April 2008

NOTE: For information about employment opportunities for people living with a variety of disabilities in New Jersey, check out the links published next to the story.
 
By REID FORGRAVE
Gannett News Service

The phone rings. Connie Mulvin clicks on her headset and stares at her computer screen.

"Thank you for calling PBS. My name is Connie. How may I help you?" the 47-year-old woman says in her friendly, lilting voice.

This could be a scene from any of a number of call centers throughout the United States or the offshore locations where American companies sometimes send their call-center work. Except this is a 5-by-10-foot storage room in the back of Mulvin's trailer at a Des Moines, Iowa, mobile home park. Nearby sits Mulvin's oxygen tank.

READ MORE: http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
/20080408/BUSINESS01/804080340/-1/newsfront2





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