January 2012 Disability Employment Statistics Released

The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics has released disability employment statistics for January showing that the percentage of people with disabilities in the labor force was 20.0. By comparison, the percentage of persons with no disability in the labor force was 68.9. The unemployment rate for those with disabilities was 12.9 percent, compared with 8.7 percent for persons with no disability, not seasonally adjusted.

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