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Paving The Way For Diversity In America’s Evolving Employment Market

When it comes to obtaining employment in the United States, people with disabilities face consistent challenges. A Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation survey asked human resource professionals and supervisors about their attitudes toward hiring and retaining workers with disabilities. More than half of respondents reported that employers didn’t hire workers with disabilities because they felt they could not...

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A reality check on the American workforce: Time to invest in people with disabilities

As leaders grapple with the tight labor market and grim economic forecasts, they need to make investments to make sure all employees, including those with disabilities, can do their best work. American employers favor an idealized and frankly imaginary employee, who is young, able-bodied, neurotypical and unchanging. The problem is this employee does not exist. The reality...

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For Disabled Workers, a Tight Labor Market Opens New Doors

The strong late-pandemic labor market is giving a lift to a group often left on the margins of the economy: workers with disabilities. Employers, desperate for workers, are reconsidering job requirements, overhauling hiring processes and working with nonprofit groups to recruit candidates they might once have overlooked. At the same time, companies’ newfound openness to...

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5 Ways to Make Your Workplace More Inclusive for What Is Now the Largest Minority Population

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, people with disabilities face unemployment rates that are more than double the national average. An estimated one in four Americans has a disability — making people with disabilities the largest minority population in the U.S. Despite the size of this community and decades of advocacy, many people with disabilities face obstacles...