Grammar on White Cane Safety Day

Today is "White Cane Safety Day" and the President of the United States has issued the following proclamation.

We do want to take a moment to reflect on the extraordinary achievements of our nation’s blind citizens and to remind Washington that 17 years after the adoption of the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is estimated that 70 per cent of the blind remain unemployed in the United States. I applaud President Bush for his proclamation, though as an English professor I can’t resist pointing out that the opening sentence has a subject-predicate agreement problem.

S.K.

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