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Having A Disability Reduces Chances Of Employment For All Racial/Ethnic Groups, Jennifer D. Brooks
Having A Disability Reduces Chances Of Employment For All Racial/Ethnic Groups, Jennifer D. Brooks
Population Health Research Brief Series
Regardless of race, adults with disabilities are less likely to be employed than those without disabilities. This data slice explains how race-ethnicity affects employment rates among adults with and without disabilities.
Exiting Vocational Rehabilitation With Employment, By Race, For Individuals With An Intellectual Disability, Alberto Migliore, Cady Landa
Exiting Vocational Rehabilitation With Employment, By Race, For Individuals With An Intellectual Disability, Alberto Migliore, Cady Landa
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These data illustrate that the pervasive race-based employment gap in the United States is also present within the sub-population of people with ID served by VR.
Data Note: Exiting Vocational Rehabilitation With Employment, By Race, For Individuals With Intellectual Disability, Cady Landa, Alberto Migliore
Data Note: Exiting Vocational Rehabilitation With Employment, By Race, For Individuals With Intellectual Disability, Cady Landa, Alberto Migliore
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There is a long-standing pattern of black/white racial disparity in employment in the general U.S. population. This Data Note explores whether this racial employment disparity, that characterizes the general population, is also found in the employment outcomes of people with intellectual disability (ID) who receive services from the vocational rehabilitation (VR) system.
Threats To Medicaid And Health Equity Intersections, Mary Crossley
Threats To Medicaid And Health Equity Intersections, Mary Crossley
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2017 was a tumultuous year politically in the United States on many fronts, but perhaps none more so than health care. For enrollees in the Medicaid program, it was a “year of living precariously.” Long-promised Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act also took aim at Medicaid, with proposals to fundamentally restructure the program and drastically cut its federal funding. These proposals provoked pushback from multiple fronts, including formal opposition from groups representing people with disabilities and people of color and individual protesters. Opposition by these groups should not have surprised the proponents of “reforming” Medicaid. Both people of …