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Spotlight on Disability Employment

September 11, 2019 by YTI Web

An article published by Reuters Business News in August explored recent positive trends in disability employment rates, noting that Americans with disabilities have, over the past few months, joined the workforce at a faster pace than their peers without disabilities, in part due to the tight overall labor market. It also highlighted the supports and accommodations that helped one individual with an acquired disability return to work and noted the barriers some people with disabilities still face when job searching, among them outdated attitudes. Read the Reuters article.

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