Employment rates and median wages are lower for adults with disabilities nationwide, data recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau shows.
“It’s about raising awareness and helping employers focus on a workforce that they may not consider it as viable and encouraging people with disabilities to seek employment,” Mercedes Witowsky, the executive director for the New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities, said.
It’s also typical for someone with a disability to be impacted in more than one way, complicating the data further. In Jetter’s case, her cerebral palsy has both cognitive and mobility impacts. The picture is even better when you only factor in people with disabilities who do not live in institutional settings, like nursing homes or other group care centers. About a quarter of adults with any type of disability living in the community are employed, when compared to 66% of adults without disabilities.
Employees with disabilities are entitled to reasonable accommodations under the ADA, which could include things like giving a cashier with a painful knee a stool to sit on, or letting an employee leave early once a week for a doctors appointment. Most accommodations are “minimal,” Witowsky said. “The newspaper article that they posted every summer, always said no experience necessary, we’ll train,” she said.
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