Hiring a person with a disability can be good business.

Here are the statistics:

• 1 in 5 Americans has a disability
• People with disabilities are 70% more likely to stay at a job five years or longer than an able bodied person
• People with disabilities are 50% less likely to be absent or late for work
• More than 70% of working aged adults with disabilities want to work, that’s a potential job pool of 18 million people
• The government pays more than $230 billion a year in disability benefits

Good things happen when people have jobs.

Because when people have jobs, they have homes. They have families. They have self-esteem. Independence. Pride. They have a place in the community. And those are good things for us all.

For more information about hiring people with disabilities, download these two documents published by the U.S. Department of Education.

• Disability Employment 101
• Disability Brochure

Links of Interest

• DisabilityInfo.gov Employer Resources
• Business Leadership Network - Disabilities at Work
• Job Accomodation Network

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