Bureau of Labor Statistics: Persons with a Disability Labor Force Characteristics, 2009
The BLS issued a Report, August 25, 2010, on the labor characteristics of persons with disabilites. The proportion of the population employed in 2009--the employment-population ratio--was 19.2 percent among those with a disability. The employment-population ratio for persons without a disability was 64.5 percent. The unemployment rate of persons with a disability was 14.5 percent, higher than the rate for those without a disabilty, which was 9.0 percent. Some highlights from the Report: 1. For all age groups, the employment-population ratio was much lower for persons with a disability than for those without a disability. 2. The unemployment rate of persons with a disability was well above the rate of those without a disability. 3. Persons with a disability were over three times as likely as those without a disability to be age 65 or over. 4. Nearly one-third of workers with a disability were employed part time, compared with about one-fifth of those without a disability. 5. Persons with a disability who have completed higher levels of education were more likely to be employed than those with less education. However, at all levels of education, persons with a disability were less than half as likely to be employed than persons without a disability. 6. A large proportion of those with a disability--about 8 in 10--were not in the labor force in 2009, compared with 3 in 10 of those without a disability.
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Proyecto Visi?n
Proyecto Visi?n http://www.proyectovision.net/ Proyecto Visi?n (Project Vision) is a bilingual website for youth with disabilities created by the Word Institute on Disability (WID). Its focus is on Latino and other youth with disabilities from underserved populations, ages 16 – 35, so they may successfully transition from school to higher education and attain sustainable independent living and employment outcomes. Funded by the AT&T Foundation, the Verizon Foundation and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, the program is using popular youth-friendly Internet sites and blogs to inspire the target population with short video clips of Success Stories and will recruit Latino and other youth with disabilities from underserved populations into our ongoing and highly successful Emerging Writers Program, part of the project’s leadership development initiative.
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08/26/10 07:47PM
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Study Report on Accessible Transportation Projects
The Center for Workforce and Disabilities, American Public Human Services Association, recently issued a Report, entitled "Getting to Work: A Case Study Report on Accessible Transportation Projects." A lack of reliable, accessible, and affordable transportation is consistently cited as a barrier to employment by people with disabilities. The four Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) transportation projects (Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New Jersey) profiled in this Report illustrate a set of promising practices that address transportation needs. Although the MIG grants are not intended to provide or fund direct transportation services, state MIGs are well-positioned to use their resources to create linkages with other agencies and entities engaged in accessible transportation planning and service delivery. The four projects described in this Report suggest a set of strategies and activities that can help advance accessible transportation in states and in communities.
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08/26/10 07:42PM
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Vocational Rehabilitation and Corrections, 2010 Monograph
The 35th Institute of Rehabilitation Issues (IRI) issued a Monograph in 2010, entitled "Vocational Rehabilitation and Corrections: Achieving Successful Employment Outcomes for Persons with Disabilities and Criminal History." This Monograph is intended to raise awareness of the service issues and potential for sucsess, motivate collaborative program development,and provide successful models and strategies that states can use to develop partnerships and programs for ex-offenders with disabilities. and programs. This Report focuses on employment as being critical for the successful re-entry of ex-offenders with disabilities into their communities.
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Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018
Education Requirements through 2018 Center for Education and the Workforce June 2010 http://cew.georgetown.edu/jobs2018/ A new, highly detailed forecast shows that as the economy struggles to recover, and jobs slowly return, there will be a growing disconnect between the types of jobs employers need to fill and numbers of Americans who have the education and training to fill those jobs. The report, by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, forecasts that by 2018, 63 percent of all jobs will require at least some postsecondary education. Employers will need 22 million new workers with postsecondary degrees – and the report shows that we will fall short by three million workers without a dramatic change in course. This translates into a deficit of 300,000 college graduates every year between now and 2018. The Center’s study helps Americans connect the dots between employment opportunity and specific education and training choices. The report projects job creation and education requirements through most of the next decade, showing job growth by industry and occupation nationally, and with state-by-state forecasts. The report also provides a state-by-state analysis on jobs and education requirements. The District of Columbia, North Dakota, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Colorado will lead the nation in the share of total jobs requiring postsecondary education. Texas, California, Nevada, Mississippi, and Arizona will lead the nation in the share of total jobs for high school dropouts.
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08/26/10 07:16PM
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ADA, 20 Years Later
The 2010 Survey of Americans with Disabilities, conducted by the Kessler Foundation/National Organization on Disability, is the sixth effort over the past 24 years to: assess the quality of life of people with disabilities on a wide range of critical dimensions; measure the gaps between people with and without disabilities on these indicators; and track them over time. This year, three new indicators were added: technology, access to mental health services, and overall financial situation. While there has been modest improvement in a few areas, the general implication of the indicators is that twenty years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act there has yet to be significant progress in most areas. This lack of progress is especially true in the employment area. The Report states: "Employment rates for people with disabilities and without disabilities seem to be affected similarily by the economic recession, meaning that this is still the area where people with disabilities seem to be at the greatest disadvantage compared to the rest of the population...Among all working age (18-64) people with disabilities, only 21% say that they are employed full or part-time, compared to 59% of working age people without disabilities-a gap of 38 percentage points...People with disabilities report that they are still much more likely than people without disabilities to be living in poverty..." A summary of the survey can be downloaded in PDF format.
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08/12/10 11:56AM
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Video: AccessAbilities
Ernst & Young is dedicated to creating a supportive environment for people working who have disabilities. It provides a variety of accommodations and sponsors a People Resource Network, AccessAbilities. Ernst & Young has been repeatedly recognized as one of America's most supportive and progressive workplaces for people with disabilities. This four minute video profiles several of the company's employees with disabilities and their reflection on their disabilities, vis-a-vis the work place. The video can be accessed by donwloading this link: http://tiny.cc/larjf.
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08/11/10 11:35AM
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Disability Employment Initiative, SGA Announcement
US Department of Labor announces $22 million in grant funds for Disability Employment initiative WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a solicitation for grant applications for approximately $22 million to fund programs that will improve educational, training and employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. "At the U.S. Department of Labor, we are committed to the goal of 'good jobs for everyone'— in its entirety. After all, America's workers are the nation's number once resource.They are also our wisest investment," said Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis."To be truly competitive in the global economy, we must leverage and foster the professional skills and talents of every single worker, including the millions of working-age people with disabilities across our country." The new Disability Employment initiative is a joint project of the Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration and its Office of Disability Employment Policy. Programs will serve eligible individuals who are unemployed or underemployed, including those receiving Social Security disability benefits. Funds will be awarded to state workforce agencies, which will collaborate with workforce investment boards and local areas.Grant awards will range from $1.5 to $6 million each to be spent over a three-year period. Cooperative agreements will be used to foster service delivery through the public workforce investment system for job seekers with disabilities.Programs will build upon the Labor Department's Disability Program Navigator initiative and other model service delivery strategies. The complete solicitation for grant applications is available at http://www.doleta.gov/grants. Visit the Employment and Training Administration's http://www.doleta.gov home page to learn more about the range of Labor Department employment and training programs.
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08/10/10 07:19AM
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Announcement of the new Disability and Employment SGA
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA)has announced today the availability of approximately $22 million for cooperative agreements to state Workforce Investment Act (WIA) administering entities. The Combined Appropriation Act of 2010, Division D of Public Law 111-117, included $12 million in funds to ETA and $12 million to ODEP to develop and implement a plan for improving effective and meaningful participation of persons with disabilities in the workforce. The Department expects to award approximately six to ten cooperative agreements ranging from $1.5 million to $6 million. This funding is being used to implement the Disability Employment Initiative (DEI) designed to: (1) Improve educational, training, and employment opportunities and outcomes of youth and adults with disabilities who are unemployed, underemployed and/or receiving Social Security disability benefits; and (2) help these individuals with disabilities find a path into the middle class through exemplary and model service delivery by the public workforce system. DEI grants will be awarded for a three year period of performance. At a minimum, applicants must identify at least two of the following seven strategic components as significant elements of the service delivery approach for the youth or adult population to be served. Some of these strategies are not mutually exclusive nor are they always distinct or separate activities. These are practices and strategies that have been identified through both ETA and ODEP grant initiatives in increasing education and employment outcomes of the population to be served. 1. Integrated Resource Teams (IRT) 2. Integrating Resources and Services, Blending and Braiding Funds, Leveraging Resources 3. Customized Employment 4. Self-Employment 5. Guideposts for Success 6. Asset Development Strategies 7. Partnerships and Collaboration The closing date for applications is September 8, 2010.
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08/09/10 03:56PM
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Society for Human Resource Management Disability Employment Resource Page
Society for Human Resource Management Disability Employment Resource Page http://www.shrm.org/hrdisciplines/Diversity/Articles/Pages/disability_072110.aspx The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) created this resource page with employers in mind. Here you will find a wealth of resources, articles and links to help source, recruit, retain and develop people with disabilities, a pool of talent too often overlooked by employers. A selection of videos features experts in the field of disability employment who have been interviewed by SHRM. Each begins with a brief audio description so that those with visual impairments can "see" the video, while scrolling text next to the video image enables those with hearing impairments to "hear" the video. Individuals who have reading-related challenges can simply ignore all the text and enjoy the audio/video portions of each presentation.
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08/05/10 09:15PM
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Tining into Local Labor Markets: Findings from the Sectoral Employment Impact Study
Public/Private Ventures has released, "Tuning in to Local Labor Markets: Findings from the Sectoral Employment Impact Study." Over the past couple of decades, sectoral employment has emerged as an innovative approach to workforce development for under-skilled and disadvantaged workers. This approach provides industry-specific training and connects jobseekers with employers in designated industry sectors. This Study evaluated whether sectoral programs could increase the earnings of disadvantaged workers. It focused on mature sectoral programs offered by three organizations: Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership,Jewish Vocational Service–Boston, and Per Scholas in NYC. The sectoral programs studied covered fields such as health care, manufacturing,and computer technology. The study found that participants in sector-focused programs: ? Earned significantly more; ? Were significantly more likely to work and worked more consistently; ? Were significantly more likely to work in jobs with higher wage; ? Were significantly more likely to work in jobs that offered benefits; ? For each subgroup analyzed(men,women, African Americans, Latinos, immigrants, people who were formerly incarcerated, welfare recipients,and young adults), had significant earnings gains. The study also identified common programmatic elements shared by the sectoral programs. These include elements such as: a strong link to local employers, resulting in an understanding of the target occupation and connections to jobs; job readiness, basic skills, and hands on technical skills training offered through the lens of a specific occupation/sector; recruitment, screening, and intake processes that result in a good match between the applicant, the program, and the target occupation; and individualized services to support training completion and success on the job.
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08/05/10 09:07PM
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GAO Forum, "Actions that Could Increase Work Participation for Adults with Disabilities," July 2010
GAO convened a Forum on March 16, 2010, to explore policy options and actions that could be implemented to help adults with disabilities participate in the workforce. Several challenges were identified, including the need for: 1) a more coordinated system of services and benefits; 2) additional information on benefits and work incentives; 3) additional employer incentives to hire persons with disabilities; 4) targeted information to employers to make the business case to hire persons with disabilities; and 5) a coordinated Federal policy to promote the employment of persons with disabilities. The Report and Highlights can be downloaded at: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-812SP Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10812sphigh.pdf
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07/30/10 10:16AM
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Low-Skilled Workers' Access to Quality Green Jobs
The Urban Institute issued an Information Brief, "Low-Skilled Workers' Access to Quality Green Jobs," Karin Martinson, Alexander Stanczyk, and Lauren Eyster, in May 2010. This Brief discusses strategies for improving access to green jobs among persons with low-skill levels, with a focus on jobs that can help improve workers' economic self-sufficiency and enable them to better support their families. Several strategies show promise in making training possible for low-skilled individuals, whether in green jobs or not: curricuar reform at community collegs and other training providers; strong partnerships between employers and training providers; career paths; financial assistance to assit low-wage workers afford school and meet their expenses; and recruitment efforts and supprot services for non-traditional workers.
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07/21/10 01:19PM
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Training and Employment Notice to Announce the Release of the Report, "Use of One-Stops by SSDI Beneficiaries in Four States Implementing Disability Program Navigator Initiatives
The US DOL/ETA has just issued TEN 1-10, Release and availability of an ETA quantitative evaluation report, "Use of One-Stops by Social Security Disability Beneficiaries in Four States Implementing Disability Program Navigator (DPN) Initiatives." ETA contracted out with Mathematica Policy Research (MPR), Inc. to condcut a quantitative evaluation of the DPN initiative through the use of the One-Stop Career Cenetr system by Supplemental Security Income(SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) beneficiaries. The stduy was condcuted in Colorado, Iowa, Maryland, and Oregon, which were early implementers of the DPN Initiative and were willing to share their Workforce Investment Act adult and dislocated worker and Wagner-Peyser data base information for program years 2002-2007. The data runs were matched with the SSI and SSDI Ticket to Work records system. This Reoport docuemnted that a very aklrge number of SSA disability beneficiaries are using the services of the public workforce system and achieving positive employment outcomes. The report is located here: http://disability.workforce3one.org/view/2001018107873517795/info
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07/07/10 02:39PM
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Promising Practices… Achieving a more welcoming, integrated and accessible One-Stop Career Center system
As one of the key principles of WIA, universal access offered the promise of a welcoming, integrated, and user-friendly system. Job seekers would be able to independently tap into all available employment services, resulting in fewer requests for specialized assistance and more efficient use of staff resources. Under WIA and the Americans with Disabilities Act, reasonable accommodations would be provided upon request; however, One-Stop Career Centers would streamline services so that a wide-ranging population of job seekers, including job seekers with disabilities, would have direct access to their resources, programs and activities. With the addition of Disability Program Navigators (DPNs) in One-Stop Career Centers across the nation, universal access moved into the spotlight. Read the full Brief to learn how DPNs throughout the country are helping to expand universal access in One-Stop Career Centers for a more diverse population of job seekers.
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06/29/10 03:42PM
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"No End In Sight: The Agony of Prolonged UNemployment"
In August 2009, the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers conducted a survey of 1,202 men and women who had been unemployed at some point in the previous 12 months. The purpose of this study was to ascertain how persons were coping with the loss of their jobs. The Heldrioch Center revisited this group in March 2010. The first section of this report shows the labor force paths they took and where they are today, along with a profile of who has become reemployed. The second section looks in detail at this group. The Report was interested in how many have been able to find employment, how long it took them, what job-hunting strategies they found successful, the sacrifices they had to make to become reemployed, and how they feel about their new jobs. The next section focuses on those who remain unemployed another half year later. The Report examines what they have been doing to get by in a prolonged condition of unemployment, and looks at the financial, social, and emotional effects on them and their families. The report concludes by presenting data on the role of government in this area.
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06/25/10 03:41PM
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ABCs of Schedule A Hiring for Hiring Manager
"...One of the most common complaints about the Federal hiring process is that it takes too long. As noted by the Merit Systems Protection Board in its report entitled Reforming Federal Hiring -- Beyond Faster and Cheaper (September 2006), it takes an average of 102 days to complete all of the steps in the competitive hiring process,from making the request, to making the appointment. Certainly you, as a Federal hiring manager or official, do not look forward to the prospect of spending three months or more trying to fill a position. Moreover, we know that excellent potential employees are lost because they too do not want to wait (or cannot afford to wait) months for a hiring decision... Schedule A is an excellent alternative to the traditional hiring process. Moreover, hiring individuals with disabilities furthers several goals. Every Federal agency strives to be diverse, inclusive and provide equal opportunity to all. Agencies appreciate that a diverse workforce is its greatest asset. Further, Congress has mandated that the Federal government be the model employer. Reaching that status means Federal agencies need to make significant improvement in the area of hiring people with disabilities. Meeting that goal while also getting positions filled quickly makes using Schedule A a WIN-WIN proposition!"
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06/19/10 04:17PM
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The ABCs of Schedule A Hiring for Applicants with Disabilities
"...There are many advantages to working for the Federal government. The federal government hires people in many different fields, from accounting to public affairs, health care to law enforcement, and everything in between. For so many, however, the steps to getting a Federal job seem numerous and difficult. This does not have to be the case. There are many different paths to Federal employment, and for individuals with disabilities, one of those paths is the Schedule A hiring authority. Schedule A is an excepted service hiring authority available to Federal agencies to hire and/or to promote individuals with disabilities without competing the job. Utilizing the Schedule A hiring authority to fill a vacancy allows federal agencies to avoid using the traditional, and sometimes lengthy, competitive hiring process. You are eligible for a Schedule A appointment if you are a person with a severe physical or mental disability, and meet the qualifications of the job in question..."
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06/19/10 04:10PM
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U.S. Department of Labor Monthly Data Series on Employment Status of People with a Disability—May
U.S. Department of Labor Monthly Data Series on Employment Status of People with a Disability—May http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t06.htm In May 2010, the percentage of people with disabilities in the labor force was 22.3. By comparison, the percentage of persons with no disability in the labor force was 70.1. The unemployment rate for those with disabilities was 14.7 percent, compared with 9.1 percent for persons with no disability, not seasonally adjusted. Access the URL to view the chart plus other pertinent statistical related information.
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06/11/10 03:16PM
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America’s Heroes at Work
America’s Heroes at Work http://www.americasheroesatwork.gov/ America’s Heroes at Work addresses the employment challenges of returning Service Members living with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and/or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Designed for employers and the workforce development system, this website is your link to information and tools to help returning Service Members living with TBI and/or PTSD succeed in the workplace - particularly Service Members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The website was recently updated and revamped with several new features and sections. • A new “For Employers” Tab allows employers to find everything they need quickly and easily. From fact sheets and reference guides to presentations and training tools, all employer resources are centrally located for simple reference. • Employer and Veteran success stories are now highlighted in a new section as well. Visitors will find impressive stories about America's heroes in the workplace – and their satisfied employers. • Visitors can connect with and share the America's Heroes at Work site through the new "Stay Connected" feature. This function is located throughout the site and allows users to bookmark pages, share resources through email and social networking sites, join the LinkedIn group, and subscribe to the America's Heroes at Work Newsletter. • Finally, the "En Espa?ol" page features several translated America’s Heroes at Work resources as well as links to additional resources from the Job Accommodation Network, BrainLine.org, and more.