{"id":1942,"date":"2015-08-26T02:32:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T06:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biznjoy.com\/dt\/njf\/?page_id=1942"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:34:39","slug":"employment-of-people-who-are-disabled","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/jobs-and-job-security\/employment-of-people-who-are-disabled\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment of People Who Are Disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"overflow: hidden; width: 670px; height: 525px;\" src=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/graph-landing.php?g=1Q8kK&amp;width=670&amp;height=475\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/?g=mnAG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/?g=mnAG<\/a> [Data are not seasonally adjusted, and begin when the BLS began reporting rates for those with a disability.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Civilian Labor Force with a Disability, 16 and over<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"overflow: hidden; width: 670px; height: 525px;\" src=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/graph-landing.php?g=1P74R&amp;width=670&amp;height=475\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/LNU01074597\">https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/LNU01074597<\/a> [Data are not seasonally adjusted<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to More workers with a disability have joined the labor force\" href=\"https:\/\/fredblog.stlouisfed.org\/2023\/06\/more-workers-with-a-disability-have-joined-the-labor-force\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">More workers with a disability have joined the labor force\u00a0<\/a>A positive side effect of wider adoption of remote work? FRED 6\/23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/odep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Office of Disability EmployOffice of Disability Employment Policyment Policy <\/a>US Dept of Labor [see Disability Employment Policy Resources by Topic] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/odep\/newsletter\/\">Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilo.org\/global\/topics\/disability-and-work\/lang--en\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disability and Work<\/a>, ILO<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thearc.org\/our-initiatives\/employment\/employment-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Employment Services for People with Disabilities<\/a> The Arc<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ADA established a right to equal access to public services offered by governments and private providers and has demonstrated the importance of contributions that people with disabilities can make to our economy. Yet despite these advances, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp1508854?query=health-policy-and-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">substantial disparities remain in areas of employment, earned income, access to the Internet, transportation, housing, and educational attainment.<\/a> Each of these disparities contributes to poorer health for this segment of our population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"title secundary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurofound.europa.eu\/publications\/policy-brief\/2018\/social-and-employment-situation-of-people-with-disabilities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social and employment situation of people with disabilities [EU]<\/a>\u00a0Ahrendt, Eurofound 11\/18<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"showRefLayer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp1508854?query=health-policy-and-reform#ref1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"#reflayer noopener noreferrer\">Health Care for Americans with Disabilities \u2014 25 Years after the ADA<\/a> &#8212; <em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em>, 9\/15<br \/>\n&#8220;The recent Affordable Care Act (ACA) may help improve access to health care for people with disabilities, but the persistence of health disparities and barriers to health care indicates that more remains to be done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.t06.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability<\/a> status, not seasonally adjusted BLS 6\/15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu\/edicollect\/1356\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Green Economy and Job Creation: Inclusion of People with Disabilities<\/a> 2013<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/archives\/dissup_04242013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Persons With A Disability: Barriers To Employment,Types of Assistance<\/a>, &amp; Other Labor-Related Issues BLS 5\/12<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu\/edicollect\/1288\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emerging Employment Issues for People with Disabilities<\/a> 12\/11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu\/edicollect\/1248\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Employment among Working-Age People with Disabilities<\/a>: What the Latest Data Can Tell Us Abstract. Burkhauser 2\/08<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Source: https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/?g=mnAG [Data are not seasonally adjusted, and begin when the BLS began reporting rates for those with a disability.] Civilian Labor Force with a Disability, 16 and over: Source:https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/LNU01074597 [Data are not seasonally adjusted More workers with a disability have joined the labor force\u00a0A positive side effect of wider adoption of remote work?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/jobs-and-job-security\/employment-of-people-who-are-disabled\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Employment of People Who Are Disabled<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14894,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1942\/revisions\/14894"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}