If you’re the type of person who woke early this morning to take advantage of the Black Friday bargains, please respect the parking spaces reserved for people with disabilities. The temptation to take that vacant spot right next to the mall entrance is understandable after circling the lot for the fourth time; but keep in [...]
Michelle Diament of Disability Scoop noted that The Arc CEO Peter Berns was among those who met with President Obama last week to discuss the issue of the “fiscal cliff.” Berns was invited to give a voice to people with disabilities regarding the impact that steep cuts in federal spending would have on their ability [...]
If the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is not renewed in the coming year, as discussed yesterday, there are still other programs that provide tax relief for businesses that encourage hiring people with disabilities. Small businesses have the Disabled Access Credit (DAC) available to make their workplaces more accommodating to a variety of disabilities. The [...]
The Internal Revenue Service used last week’s observation of Veteran’s Day to remind businesses that time was running out on the chance to earn a tax credit of nearly $10,000 for hiring a veteran with a disability. As with all things related to the U.S. Tax Code, the rules governing the Vow to Hire Heroes [...]
This past Wednesday was World Diabetes Day, an official observation established in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization in response to this growing health threat; particularly with regards to Type 2 Diabetes. In the United States alone it is estimated that some 70 million people are at risk of developing [...]
Rachel Nickless’s story, “Push to hire people with disabilities,” in Tuesday’s Australian Financial Review begins with a lot of familiar-sounding circumstances to those found here in the United States. Workforce participation by this demographic trends far behind the national average. Businesses make little to no effort to incorporate people with disabilities into their diversity recruitment [...]
Several post-mortem analyses of the 2012 presidential election have credited the Obama campaign for its portrayal of Mitt Romney as an “outsourcer-in-chief” in the minds of voters who were concerned about American jobs. Aides to the GOP candidate attempted to draw distinctions between the practice of sending jobs overseas and contracting with other American companies [...]
Yesterday’s post showed advocates in Wisconsin at odds over the best approach for providing career training and employment opportunities to people with disabilities. The Badger State is not alone in its efforts to evolve service for this underserved population, as Beth Miller reports in her in-depth article for The News Journal of Delaware, published on [...]
Two op-eds found in last Wednesday’s edition of The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, illustrate some of the philosophical differences found within organizations sharing the same mission of providing employment opportunities and career training for people with disabilities. Advocates for people with disabilities in The Badger State have been taking a long, hard look at [...]
Demographics is the buzzword of current post-election analysis. Outlets like ABC News are crediting women, Latinos, and African-Americans for making the difference in re-electing President Obama. But so far there has been no breakdown of how people with disabilities may have voted — or how many went to the polls — on Tuesday to vote [...]