By Jeffrey Hawting Earlier in March, Walmart President and CEO, John Furner announced Walmart is committing an additional $350 billion to purchase products that are made, grown or assembled in America. This is the example we need from our largest…
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Client Spotlight: LCI + Ironlace, An “Unbreakable” Partnership
Client Spotlight What do you get when you combine ingenuity with best-in-class manufacturing and distribution? A wonderful partnership that’s “unbreakable” between LCI and Ironlace, maker of the world’s strongest laces. Check out our interview with Graham Buksa from Ironlace on how we…
LCI President Interviewed on SiriusXM
Career Mix with Torin Ellis LCI President Jeffrey Hawting was featured on SiriusXM as part of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Torin Ellis, host of the radio show Career Mix, highlighted the work we do at LCI to remove barriers…
LCI Celebrates National Disability Employment Awareness Month
This October marked the 75th observance of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, an opportunity LCI leveraged to demonstrate the impact our mission has on the people and communities we serve across the country. In addition to multiple articles shared by our…
NDEAM Employee Blog: Tom Vernasco
NDEAM Employee Blog: Tom Vernasco I like working at LCI because I get great exercise due to the fact that I’m diabetic, as well as visually impaired. I like working for LCI because I can help other businesses and our…
NDEAM Employee Blog: Starlyn Lockhart
NDEAM Employee Blog: Starlyn Lockhart Four years ago, I moved to North Carolina in search of a new job. Because I am visually impaired, I knew that finding a job was going to be a challenge. I was looking for…
NDEAM Employee Blog: Larue Peters
NDEAM Employee Blog: Larue Peters The More Things Change… She pointed me toward the small office that would be my secretarial workspace for a few weeks before we moved into the new building. Or so I thought. I did some…
NDEAM Employee Blog: Barbara Cissell
NDEAM Employee Blog: Barbara Cissell Having a disability should not bring you down, nor should it replace a smile with a frown.In fact, I think we should put a th where there is a d, then we could rightfully say…
Misconceptions of Disabilities
ADA 30th Anniversary 2020 Leon Woods, Shaw AFB, SC Yes, I have a disability, but I don’t consider it a life stopper. You see, I wasn’t born blind or vision impaired. It came about when I contracted bacterial meningitis in…
NDEAM Employee Blog: George Mason
NDEAM Employee Blog: George Mason The following employee blog was submitted George Mason, an LCI warehouse receiver in Fort Bragg, N.C I was born blind. I have several eye conditions. The two primary eye diseases I have are Aniridia and…