NEW YORK (Reuters) -COVID-19 changed the trajectory of Lucy Trieshmann's budding legal career. Having Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare inherited disorder, Trieshmann found in-person law school lectures ...
CEOs and C-suite leaders convened in Tokyo for SYNC25, the world’s first accountability summit focused specifically on disability inclusion in business.
The number of people with disabilities across the nation who are employed is at its highest level since federal officials started keeping track. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor ...
People with disabilities have nearly three times the unemployment rate of workers without disabilities, but their numbers are improving in Colorado and nationwide, officials say. Still, only about 38% ...
Led by Labour MP Marsha de Cordova, MPs raised concerns over possible changes to the Access to Work scheme, and hailed it as a vital lifeline for young people with learning disabilities ...
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and in Connecticut, Gov. Ned Lamont’s Administration marked the occasion with a proclamation and press release celebrating individuals with ...
July is Disability Pride Month. Melissa Gates, who is physically disabled and uses a cane or scooter to move around, was actively searching and applying for a federal job. It took her 20 years before ...
The Fourth Annual Lake County Board of Developmental Disabilities/Deepwood Job and Resource Fair and Hiring Event, recently held at the Mentor Public Schools Paradigm Building, has continued a “new ...
According to recent data published by Creative Access in the U.K. – less than one-third of individuals working in the creative industries and identifying as disabled feel optimistic about their ...
Disability-rights advocates have long insisted that, as a matter of public policy, disabled people’s lives should resemble those of nondisabled people to the greatest extent possible. They have argued ...
The state Department of Vocational Rehabilitation is out of money, leaving thousands of disabled people without help getting jobs, stuck on a waiting list that may last for years. "We have put a lot ...