The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the restructuring of its organizational support for people with disabilities last week in a move intended to provide lifelong support with education, employment, and housing. Three agencies within the HHS — the Office on Disability, the Administration on Aging, and the Administration on Developmental Disabilities — [...]
Nearly every national issue the media covers gets defined by which politicians are in support of or in opposition to it; and while we’re in an election cycle, it seems as if every issue, great and small, is a dividing line between the two major U.S. political parties. So it was refreshing to read guest [...]
Last Friday’s blog post closed with a look at a New Jersey job fair intended to pair people with disabilities with a wide variety of employment opportunities. Shortly thereafter, the state of New Jersey formalized its commitment to getting more people with disabilities into the workforce. Susan K. Livio, statehouse bureau reporter for The Record, [...]
Happy 50th anniversary to SRVS! The Memphis, Tennessee, organization currently provides services for 850 people with disabilities in the city, including contract labor, skills development, transportation, and residential care. Newly minted executive director Tyler Hampton published a guest column in yesterday’s Memphis Commercial Appeal honoring the organization’s history, which began in 1962 with seven employees [...]
Part of our regular coverage of the job market for people with disabilities are the reports from the U.S. Department of Labor. Now April brings the quarterly composite data, which reveals an unemployment rate that is 74% higher among this population set, according to a story by Kristin Samuelson of the Chicago Tribune. Fortunately, more [...]
With spring so much in the air this past weekend, it’s only appropriate we take some time to smell the flowers; not to mention the soil and the fertilizer that bring forth these beautifully blooming buds. The photo gallery accompanying last week’s Tulsa World article on people with disabilities working and getting job training in [...]
When the Maine Chamber of Commerce and the state departments of labor and health and human services held their conference in Freeport demonstrating the value of employing people with disabilities to area businesses earlier this month (which we touched on to make a point about outsourcing to Americans), Portland’s television station, WCSH channel 6, was [...]
Remember this January story about Preston Dwoskin? The 20-year-old man from Marysville, Washington, was lobbying state legislators for more inclusiveness of people with disabilities in schools and planning a run for city council. He also had aspirations to follow in the family tradition of serving at even higher levels of government. Now Massachusetts has its [...]
“April showers bring May flowers,” goes the old adage. And for young people, this is the time of year to plant seeds for summer employment opportunities; then tend to them so they’ll blossom into jobs that can “make it rain,” to borrow a more contemporary saying. A summer job is often a teenager’s first experience [...]
The small gains in U.S. employment during March had a positive impact for people with disabilities. Shaun Heasley of Disability Scoop reported last Friday that the latest figures from the Department of Labor showed unemployment for people with disabilities dropping from 15.8% to 15.2% over the past month, as the economy added 120,000 jobs overall. [...]