Is the Status of People with Disabilities Improving? [microform] / H. Stephen Kaye
- Bib ID:
- 5619499
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Kaye, H. Stephen
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED421824
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- Description:
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- [Washington D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1998
- 5 p.
- Summary:
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This report discusses the findings of national surveys that show little evidence of improvement in the economic well-being of Americans with disabilities. Positive and negative findings include: (1) the labor force participation rate for people with disabilities aged 18-64 remained more or less constant, at about 52 percent between 1990 and 1994; (2) the employment rate of people aged 16-64 with work disabilities was also steady at 28 or 29 percent for 1990-1995; (3) four-fifths of employers polled said that they had made accommodations for workers with disabilities, up from 51 percent in 1986; (4) people aged 21-64 with severe functional limitations had an employment rate of 27.6 percent in late 1991 and that rate had risen to 32.2 percent by late 1994; (5) earnings remain significantly lower for workers with disabilities than typical workers; (6) in 1989, 28.9 percent of working-age adults limited in their ability to work lived in poverty and in 1994 the poverty rate was 30 percent; (7) 75 percent of people with disabilities polled said access to buildings has improved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act; and (8) findings indicate that the social participation of people with disabilities remains low. (CR)
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- Availability: U.S. Department of Education, OSERS/NIDRR, Room 3431, FB6, Washington, DC 20202; telephone: 202-205-5633; TDD: 800-877-8339; World Wide Web: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/NIDRR.
- Sponsoring Agency: National Inst. on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (ED/OSERS), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: H133B30002.
- Disability Statistics Abstract, n21 May 1998.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- California Univ., San Francisco. Disability Statistics Center
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