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Yesterday, a federal appeals court upheld a 2006 ruling in federal district court and found that US paper currency is discriminatory towards the blind and visually impaired. Currently, various denominations are indistinguishable by touch because all paper curency is of the same size and texture.
From the Times: “Of the more than 180 countries that issue paper currency,” Judge Robertson wrote in his decision a year and a half ago, “only the United States prints bills that are identical in size and color in all their denominations.”
This seems to be a case where doing it a different way than everyone else pretty much means, well, UR DOIN IT WRONG. Read the whole story here.
So question to the non-Americans on my f-list: How is your money different, specifically, how does it feel different? I know Canadian bills use lots of pretty colors, but I can't say I spent much time feeling my money when I was there. Loonies and toonies are easy to tell apart, though! I still think we should scrap the one dollar bill and make it a coin, like they do in civilized countries.
I'll be interested to see where this story goes. Americans seem pretty resistant to change, as far as money is concerned, otherwise the penny would be history and we'd all carry those gold dollars. The decision can still be appealed further and potentially overturned, or we could be seeing major changes to US currency in years to come.
From the Times: “Of the more than 180 countries that issue paper currency,” Judge Robertson wrote in his decision a year and a half ago, “only the United States prints bills that are identical in size and color in all their denominations.”
This seems to be a case where doing it a different way than everyone else pretty much means, well, UR DOIN IT WRONG. Read the whole story here.
So question to the non-Americans on my f-list: How is your money different, specifically, how does it feel different? I know Canadian bills use lots of pretty colors, but I can't say I spent much time feeling my money when I was there. Loonies and toonies are easy to tell apart, though! I still think we should scrap the one dollar bill and make it a coin, like they do in civilized countries.
I'll be interested to see where this story goes. Americans seem pretty resistant to change, as far as money is concerned, otherwise the penny would be history and we'd all carry those gold dollars. The decision can still be appealed further and potentially overturned, or we could be seeing major changes to US currency in years to come.
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