Equality of Opportunity: The Making of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Independence

ADA will empower people to control their own lives. It will result in a cost savings to the Federal Government. As we empower people to be independent, to control their own lives, to gain their own employment, their own income, their own housing, their own transportation, taxpayers will save substantial sums from the alternatives.
Congressman Steve Bartlett⁸

8. Steve Bartlett, quoted in “ADA: A Special Issue,” p. 15.