A story about people with disabilities working at Papa John’s or Dairy Queen could come from almost any city in the continental United States. But even though it’s the largest city in the world, Shanghai, China, is not the first place that comes to mind when thinking about fast food meccas or employment opportunities for [...]
Maryland agencies supporting people with disabilities received some disheartening information heading into the holiday season, when news broke in November that the state government’s Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA) had somehow overlooked a $34 million budget surplus and even ended up returning $25 million to the state’s General Fund. Reporter Scott Daugherty puts an all-too human [...]
Warning: This post contains graphic depictions of delicious foods being prepared that may cause your mouth to water. We’ve got food on the brain thanks to the American Training VanWay program, which just completed its fifth annual can drive for the food banks of Merrimack Valley. The guests who typically use the transportation service to [...]
Two of the keynote speakers at the Indiana Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities annual convention held earlier in this month in Indianapolis were of the variety one would expect at a conference with the theme, “Celebrating Community.” National Council on Disability executive director Aaron Bishop has spent his entire professional career advocating for people [...]
A proposal by the U.S. Department of Labor that asks government contractors to set goals for hiring people with disabilities is being praised as a major opportunity for integrating more of these people into the work force. Some 200,00 businesses count on federal government contracts for at least a portion of their revenue, according to [...]
The news that unemployment in the United States dropped below 9% for the first time in two years included a corresponding dip in the jobless rate for people with disabilities. The U.S. Department of Labor’s November report said unemployment among these people fell to 13%, its lowest rate since 2009. While the decline in joblessness [...]
There are a myriad of worthy stories from this year’s United Nations’ International Day of Persons with Disabilities in addition to what was posted yesterday. While it isn’t possible to cover all of them, there were two major announcements from December 3 commemorations that initially slipped through the cracks of the time-cyberspace continuum that merit [...]
Saturday was the United Nation’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities, and in his official message introducing this year’s theme, “Together for a better world for all, including people with disabilities in development,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged countries to continue including the voices of these people in decisions affecting societal progress. The Secretary-General, who has [...]
Many career advisors, including The Career Key blogger Lawrence K. Jones, will tell you the most desired job situations are the ones that make “the best use of one’s abilities and gives one a feeling of accomplishment.” As the state of Connecticut struggled to restore power to 831,000 customers following the October 28 nor’easter, a [...]