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November 23, 2007
ITHACA, N.Y. - There is an employment and poverty gap between working-age people with disabilities and those without disabilities, a U.S. report found.
The Third Annual Disability Status Report, by Cornell University found that almost 38 percent of people with disabilities are employed, compared with almost 80 percent of people without disabilities.
Andrew Houtenville, of Cornell's Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Demographics and Statistics, said there are 22.3 million people with disabilities of working age -- age 21 to 64 -- or 13 percent of the total working-age population.
Houtenville also found that U.S. adults with disabilities are more than twice as likely to live in poverty -- 25.4 percent of U.S. adults with disabilities live in poverty compared with 9.5 percent of those without disabilities. People with disabilities constitute 28 percent of the working-age American population living in poverty, the report said.
"The employment gap for people with disabilities is long-standing," Houtenville said in a statement. "They are not participating in the recovery from the 2001 recession."
The report is available at http://www.DisabilityStatistics.org.
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