In a U.S. News & World Report article released today, an August report showed a negative outlook for disabled workers looking for work. The report showed that fewer disabled workers are employed and participating in the workforce and that more are looking for work.
The August report also showed that despite small improvements in the job market, working age people with disabilities who are employed had continued to decrease, which was not the case for those without disabilities; those without disabilities showed a slightly more positive employment outlook.
As stated by Andrew Houtenville, an associate professor of economics at the University of New Hampshire's Institute on Disability, "It looks like people with disabilities participated in the Great Recession – they lost jobs, they exited the labor force – but they're slower to recover. This is a trend that we may see continue and I think the fear of everyone involved in employment policy ... would be that people with disabilities don't recover from the recession."
Despite the negative trends, the Kessler Foundation CEO has stated that some Fortune 500 companies are implementing programs to hire those with disabilities.
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