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Options For Youth With Disabilities: A Focus On Competitive Integrated Employment Limits, Tatyana Safronova
Options For Youth With Disabilities: A Focus On Competitive Integrated Employment Limits, Tatyana Safronova
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
For people with disabilities, employment outcomes are discouraging. In 2021, only 19% were employed, a third of the employment rate for people without disabilities.1 Disabled individuals worked part-time because they could not find full-time work or because of a reduction in hours. 2 Fewer disabled persons had bachelor or higher degrees, and fewer worked in professional and managerial positions than people without disabilities. 3 To make it possible for disabled adults to get well-paying jobs, we must ensure that disabled youth have a solid educational foundation. That requires that more youth graduate high school; only 68.2% of students with disabilities …