‘Job Crunch Even Harder On People With Disabilities’
November 30th, 2009On National Public Radio, Joseph Shapiro reports that people with disabilities are hard hit by unemployment during the recession.
The official unemployment rate for people with disabilities is estimated at 17.5 percent, as compared with a general jobless rate of 10.2 percent. But experts say the situation for people with disabilities is much worse than the statistics suggest, because most have given up looking for work altogether and are thus not counted.
Among the difficulties: People with disabilities risk losing their government benefits if they bring home a paycheck, and employers fear that workplace accommodations will cost too much.
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