Agencies struggle to find jobs for clients with disabilities
November 5th, 2009From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
While finding employment opportunities for people with disabilities is a nationwide problem, New Jersey and Pennsylvania social support programs are trying to create jobs by competing for piecework contracts. That’s getting more difficult as the recession goes on, and waiting lists for jobs continue to grow.
It’s estimated that more than 70 percent of working-aged people with disabilities are not working, said Bill Ditto, New Jersey’s director of disability services, and about 90 percent of them live in poverty.
Among the barriers to employment faced by people with disabilities: Social misperceptions that they are not capable of working, and fears that a paycheck could jeopardize their federal benefits.
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