Over the past couple of months, we’ve marked the progress people with disabilities have made in a number of countries with regards to career training and job opportunities; from a new employment rights’ treaty in Israel to hiring increases in China, news across the globe indicates progress is being made toward inclusion of these people [...]
Since it’s Valentine’s Day, let’s dispense with the usual discussions of career training and employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and look at a story about what truly makes life matter: love. PBS NewsHour closed last Thursday’s program with an interview of Rachel Simon (below), author of the 2011 New York Times bestseller, The Story [...]
Abilities Expo kicks off its series of 2012 events at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, February 17-19. The nation’s largest event for people with disabilities is expecting more than 3,000 individuals with disabilities, their family members, caregivers, health care professionals, and others to attend, according to the press release. For more than 30 [...]
It’s been a while since we’ve looked at Disability.gov, the website managed by the Labor Department’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP). Working in conjunction with 21 federal agencies, the site provides people with disabilities, their families and caregivers, as well as educators and employers with comprehensive information for services and programs available in the [...]
This past Tuesday was the original deadline for public comment on the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed new rule that would require businesses seeking federal contracts to be more active in recruiting and hiring people with disabilities. Instead, the department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced on Tuesday it has moved the deadline [...]
Since the start of 2012, manufacturing jobs once outsourced overseas have been returning to America. Some economic experts, however, are correctly seeing past the simple good news and into the complexities of the situation. The American workplace is not the same place it was when it grew its manufacturing base in the second half of [...]
Sometimes the best job creators are other jobs. That’s one lesson learned from reporter Mark Williams’ article in last week’s Columbus Dispatch, which takes a comprehensive look at the real and potential impact made by U.S. manufacturers choosing to bring outsourced jobs back to American shores. Economic consultant Harold Sirkin tells Williams that the 600,000 [...]
When Mark Perriello took the reins of leadership at the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), he promised to ensure the voices of his 50 million constituents were heard in the halls of state governments across the U.S. We talked about Periello’s background in building grassroots support last December. In a couple of weeks, [...]
Two stories from the West Coast in the news this week demonstrate how including people with disabilities in regular classroom settings help prepare them to live their lives more independently and, just as importantly, help others accept these people into the mainstream. The University of California, Los Angeles, is the latest institution of higher education [...]
The Campaign for Disability Employment (CDE) announced the launch of its second nationwide video contest on Tuesday. The competition invites submissions built around the organization’s “What can YOU do?” campaign to educate the public about the value people with disabilities bring to the workforce. Both individual and groups of filmmakers can submit videos of 1-3 [...]