If adding 163,000 jobs to the U.S. economy is being “stuck in low gear” as The Wall Street Journal reporters Neil Shah and E.S. Browning put it in the opening paragraph of their August 3 article, does that make the .3% increase in unemployment for people with disabilities a case of driving in reverse? Let’s hope [...]
Back in a high school civics course, I learned the Latin phrases de jure and de facto during a unit covering the Civil Rights Movement and racial segregation in the United States. It must have been a somewhat common piece of knowledge passed along in that context. When you start typing one of those terms [...]
For those who didn’t get enough data parsing and statistical analysis in posts from last Thursday and Friday, we kick off the week looking at a new report from the Center for Corporate Equality (CCE), which recently published Review of OFCCP Enforcement Statistics Related to Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and Vietnam Veterans Readjustment [...]
Matthew Brault’s new report for the United States Census Bureau, Americans With Disabilities: 2010 (PDF), devotes a large portion of text to the analysis of economic characteristics for people with disabilities; shedding light on the need to have increased employment opportunities not only to promote the independence and inclusion of these individuals, but also to [...]
News from earlier this month that temporary and contract employment is on the rise has triggered reporters across the country to check in with agencies that hire workers to fill jobs; painting an overall picture where full-time work may not be returning anytime soon. Traditionally, a spike in temp jobs is a sign of economic [...]
The onset of the Olympic Games in London may, at least temporarily, shift media focus away from the issue of outsourcing American manufacturing jobs that has dominated the news cycle of late. Don’t mistake the absence of news coverage for resolution of the issue, however; with the latest monthly unemployment figures from the U.S. Department [...]
An op-ed in the TC Palm earlier this month calls on the state of Florida to devote more resources toward equal access to contract services opportunities for people with disabilities, citing the financial and emotional strain placed on the families of these individuals once they are out of the school system. As a former vice [...]
Good news was coming fast and furious at the beginning of this week on the job front for people with disabilities. Between Delaware Governor Jack Markell introducing his “A Better Bottom Line: Employing People with Disabilities” initiative upon ascending to chair of the the National Governor’s Association on Sunday, and Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), who [...]
Yesterday’s examination of the increasing number of hours put in by temp workers and how it impacts the overall picture of the U.S. job market would not be complete without a discussion of another aspect that seems to be in transition: outsourcing. In some ways, outsourcing is like a large-scale hiring of temp employees to [...]
Some analysts are looking hard for positive trends amid the U.S. Department of Labor’s latest unemployment report, and they’re hoping that one such indicator is the increase in temporary employment. As USA Today reporter Paul Davidson notes in his July 10 article, while U.S. employment figures essentially remained stagnant by adding only 80,000 new jobs [...]