Eight In Ten Disabled Americans 'Outside The Workforce'

Thursday, December 8, 2011
WASHINGTON -- With an unemployment rate of 13 percent among workers with disabilities, the Obama Administration is now wielding one of the few sticks it has to combat hiring discrimination against Americans with disabilities -- federal tax dollars.
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