Employment interventions boost disability employability by 25%
Finding a job can be tough at the best of times, but when you have a disability it can be an uphill battle, especially when fewer than 50 percent of disabled people have a job.
Finding a job can be tough at the best of times, but when you have a disability it can be an uphill battle, especially when fewer than 50 percent of disabled people have a job.
Economics & Business
Dec 6, 2021
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Britney Spears has been locked in a court battle 13 years in the making. While her father was suspended as conservator of her estate on Sep. 29, 2021, her conservatorship might not be terminated until the next hearing on ...
Social Sciences
Oct 4, 2021
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Working from home could revolutionize job opportunities for people with mobility impairments, chronic medical conditions, and other disabilities, but a towering obstacle still stands in the way more than 18 months into the ...
Economics & Business
Sep 30, 2021
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During a disaster people with disability are often invisible. They are left out because systems set up before disasters make it hard for them to be involved.
Social Sciences
Sep 9, 2021
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With no international spectators and limited domestic crowds, the importance placed on broadcasting the Paralympic Games is greater than ever before. When the Games were postponed in 2020, International Paralympic Committee ...
Social Sciences
Sep 2, 2021
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Managers sometimes assume that hiring employees who live with disabilities will be more expensive. They worry that these employees will perform at a lower level, be absent more often, need expensive accommodations and will ...
Economics & Business
Aug 9, 2021
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The death toll from devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium rose above 90 on Friday, as the search continued for hundreds of people still unaccounted for.
Environment
Jul 16, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed uncomfortable and distressing truths about American society: namely, the struggle many Americans face just getting by.
Social Sciences
May 6, 2021
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New research from the University of Minnesota's Institute on Community Integration and the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals provides insight on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the staff—called ...
Social Sciences
Apr 28, 2021
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An 'astonishing' deficit of data about how the global boom in educational technology could help pupils with disabilities in low and middle-income countries has been highlighted in a new report.
Education
Mar 25, 2021
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