The U.S. Department of Labor closed the comment period on its proposed new rule to spur the hiring people with disabilities on February 21. Officials apparently have plenty of feedback to sift through as they mull over their final decision, and not much of it is positive. According to an article by Melanie Trottman in [...]
This past Tuesday was the original deadline for public comment on the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed new rule that would require businesses seeking federal contracts to be more active in recruiting and hiring people with disabilities. Instead, the department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced on Tuesday it has moved the deadline [...]
Since the start of 2012, manufacturing jobs once outsourced overseas have been returning to America. Some economic experts, however, are correctly seeing past the simple good news and into the complexities of the situation. The American workplace is not the same place it was when it grew its manufacturing base in the second half of [...]
Sometimes the best job creators are other jobs. That’s one lesson learned from reporter Mark Williams’ article in last week’s Columbus Dispatch, which takes a comprehensive look at the real and potential impact made by U.S. manufacturers choosing to bring outsourced jobs back to American shores. Economic consultant Harold Sirkin tells Williams that the 600,000 [...]
For anyone wondering just how much people with disabilities are capable of contributing to the workforce, a study published by the University of Buffalo Regional Institute in the last quarter of 2011 revealed some encouraging quantitative and qualitative results about blind and visually impaired people in the state of New York. The study, which specifically [...]
President Obama did not specifically address the impact of his policies on people with disabilities during his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, but his blueprint for “an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values” spoke to many of the issues these people grapple [...]
Hartford Courant columnist Susan Campbell writes a great deal about the underserved population in and around Connecticut’s capitol, particularly with respect to families. Last week, she and photographer Richard Messina spent some time with Lois Nitch and her son, Andrew John Puglisi, for an article in advance of a workshop Nitch conducts to help parents [...]
After two consecutive months of positive trends for hiring people with disabilities, 2011 closed with a slight rise in unemployment for these people, according to the latest statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor. Journalist Michelle Diament, who tracks the federal agency’s monthly numbers closely over at DisabilityScoop.com, reported last week that the good news [...]
If you have the urge to make a fresh start in 2012 by cleaning the clutter out of your house, keep in mind that a lot of the things tucked away in basements, attics, crawlspaces, and storage sheds can be refurbished for continued use or recycled to keep toxic materials out of landfills, including your [...]
What would you buy if someone walked up and gave you $704 in cash to do some holiday shopping? The CEO of an new online retailer recently approached shoppers in New York with that very amount of money, along with a challenge to spend it only on American-made products. The benefactor is David Seliktar, founder [...]