Less than a quarter of people with disabilities were employed in 2022. Experts point to employer bias and fear of the cost of accommodations.
, including difficulty in hearing and seeing, in mobility like climbing stairs, in cognition like concentrating and in living independently and taking on activities like dressing. Altogether, 61 million Americans have a disability.
"There is this bias that so many of us have and much of it's unconscious that somebody who is a wheelchair user cannot do a job as well as somebody who's not," says Jessica Tuman, vice president of, a program within financial planning company Voya Financial dedicated to people with disabilities. They also help the bottom lines of their employers. On average over a four-year period, companies whose workforce included people with disabilities had revenues 28% higher than those who didn't, according to aWhile considering applicants from the pool of people with disabilities, employers might assume their employment could get expensive.
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