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The Swedish Down Syndrome Association and Down Syndrome Norway combined efforts to organize an online conference with John and Mark X. Cronin, co-founders of John’s Crazy Socks, as the featured speakers. The event gathered parents, advocates and people with Down syndrome to hear John and Mark’s inspirational story and to hear success stories about the employment of people with Down syndrome. 
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There is an awful reality that confronts people with Dwon syndrome and their families: nearly every person with Down syndrome will develop Alzheimer’s. Despite this foreboding future, people with Down syndrome are barred from the promising trials of drugs to address Alzheimer's disease, drugs that could change the future for thousands of people with Down syndrome. This inequity needs to change. 

After listening to Taylor Swift’s music for years, John will proudly share that he is a Swiftie.   

“I love Taylor Swift,” said John. “I love her music, I love her singing, I love her dancing. I love everything about her.” 

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John Cronin, co-founder of John’s Crazy Socks, returned to Boston this past weekend to continue his participation in a medical research study of people with Down syndrome. 

Tyreek Hill, the star wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins received a $7,000 fine for not wearing socks. John Cronin, who loves socks so much that he started his very own sock company, John’s Crazy Socks, thought that was crazy. John sent a box of his socks to Tyreek Hill. 

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October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), a time to celebrate the achievements of people with differing abilities in the workplace. Yet there is a stain on the celebration because the sub-minimum wage persists and we have people in this country paid as little as $0.25 an hour simply because they have a disability. It is past time that we eliminated the sub-minimum wage.
Last night, John Cronin, co-founder of John’s Crazy Socks, attended a fundraiser for the annual Sorrentino Family Turkey Drive. This marks the 15th year that Andre Sorrentino and his family have run the largest Thanksgiving food drive in the area.
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Our co-founder and John’s father, Mark X. Cronin, has been recognized as a “Champion of Long Island’s Special Needs Community” by New York Family. The publication selected Mark X. Cronin for “making Long Island a better place for people with disabilities.” 
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When you buy from John’s Crazy Socks, you get great socks and so much more. Here is what we deliver when you buy from us, it is the value equation we offer: 
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National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) always has a special place at John’s Crazy Socks. NDEAM matters because it calls all of us to recognize that 20 million Americans with a disability cannot find meaningful work despite being ready, able, and willing to work. NDEAM matters because it calls on us to focus on what people can do, not what they cannot do. NDEAM matters because we are never blinded by a person’s limitations, we are awed by their possibilities. 
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