Monday, November 7, 2011

October 2011 Employment Statistics Show Improvement in Employment Situation among People with Disabilities

The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics has released disability employment statistics for October showing that the percentage of people with disabilities in the labor force was 21.3. By comparison, the percentage of persons with no disability in the labor force was 69.6. The unemployment rate for those with disabilities was 13.2 percent, compared with 8.3 percent for persons with no disability, not seasonally adjusted.

URL: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t06.htm

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