The most concrete goal of National Disability Employment Awareness Month each October is to increase employment rates and job opportunities for Americans with disabilities. This of course assumes that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the intersection of disability and the U.S. workforce. After a lengthy medical leave, many are searching for meaningful ...

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 ...

An awful car accident three decades ago meant partial paralysis, a long hospital stay, a painful rehabilitation and eventual return to walking with an abiding limp for Lisa Smith. Years later, a ...

For a graduate student, the job market is an intimidating space full of uncertainty. Add to that a disability, and the navigation of the professional world becomes even more daunting. From simple ...

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 ...

An independent federal agency says it’s time for a decades-old government jobs program for people with disabilities to come to an end. The National Council on Disability, which is charged with ...

People with disabilities are four times more likely to be victims of violent crime. Federal funding to bring their abusers to justice is dwindling.

Joe Lupinacci, who grew up in Greenwich, is among the 1 million people with disabilities in the U.S. who lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. When the virus hit in March 2020, Lupinacci was ...