Redesigning the Dollar

A Federal Court of Appeals ruled today that U.S. money discriminates against blind people.  This is a big victory for the American Council for the Blind, and I don't have any qualms about it - this is a good decision.  The Treasury Department will have to redesign the bills so that people who can't see a dollar bill can still tell it's a dollar bill, or a twenty or whatever.

 

However, in a stunning victory for the United States government, at this point, from a legal standpoint anyway, money does not discriminate against the poor.  Therefore, nothing has to be done about the problem of people who can't see a dollar bill because they simply don't have one.