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Poverty, unemployment trouble the disabled.(In Short)(Brief article)
Working-age Americans with disabilities are twice as likely to be unemployed and live in poverty, according to the "Third Annual Disability Status Report," co-written by Richard Burkhauser, professor of Policy Analysis and Management. It was presented to Congress in November 2007.
The report, the only one of its kind in the nation, found that 38 percent of working-age people with disabilities have jobs compared with 80 percent of people without disabilities. In addition, 25 percent of working-age disabled people live in poverty, compared with ...
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