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Employment gap widens for workers with disabilities
Just in the past few years, the employment gap has widened between the number of working-age Americans with disabilities who are employed and those workers without disabilities, as a recent government study has reported.
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Hiring authority makes it easier to hire disabled employees
by 2nd Lt. Gina Vaccaro
Air Force Personnel Center Public Affairs
12/1/2008 - RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) — Air Force officials are working to increase manager understanding of how to hire qualified people with disabilities. The Schedule A hiring authority, a noncompetitive government hiring process, allows federal employers to hire qualified people with mental retardation, severe physical disabilities or psychiatric disabilities to civilian positions.
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Get Networking Working - The benefits to a disabled entrepreneur
When I set up my first business I knew the importance of networking but knew very little else! My inexperience and lack of knowledge, coupled with my disability made my attempts hit and miss, heavy on the miss!
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Program helps disabled get work
NEWTON — Dennis Staley, 60, has worked in Bethel College food service since he was 18. He’ll have 43 years of service come February.
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My view: It’s a bad time for ADA expansion
BY MARK ZELEK
Special to The Miami Herald
A politically popular new law will soon expand the number of workers who can seek federal disability protections under the ADA. This may seem like a bitter pill for companies already struggling through the unfolding credit crisis.
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Those on disability qualify for Homestead Exemption
TALLADEGA COUNTY — Many in the area may not know about a property tax exemption available to permanently disabled citizens and some senior citizens in Alabama.
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Loans For Disabled: Best Supports For Your Disability
Like all other borrowers the disable people too deserve to be helped financially. Even for them especial loan with especial provisions should be implemented. If such steps are taken then they will get the confidence of facing any situation with self-confidence. That is why; the loans for disabled are being brought into action so that it works as a ray of hope for all disable people.
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Disability in the workplace: The forgotten minority
The government has set some very ambitious targets for recruiting more disabled people in the workplace over the next two years, but what are employers actually doing about it?
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Disability Rights Fund Makes Grants to 33 Organizations in 7 Countries
BOSTON, MA – The Disability Rights Fund (DRF) – a groundbreaking collaborative to support the human rights of people with disabilities around the world– today announced funding decisions from its first request for proposals. A total of $800,000 will be gifted to 33 organizations in seven countries. The grants will support work to raise awareness about the rights of people with disabilities, build coalitions and networks, and develop advocacy and monitoring activities, in connection with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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Todd Ossenfort: Disabled vet seeks relief from credit-card debt
Living on a fixed income, minimum payments become unmanageable.
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