Cornell University Disability Status Report Rollout Webinar

Cornell research found that in 2017, 37.3% of working-age (21-64) people with disabilities were employed, compared with the 79.4% of people without disabilities. Moreover, over a quarter of working-age Americans with disabilities lived in poverty, compared to one in ten persons without disabilities. These serious discrepancies continue to separate Americans with disabilities from their peers without disabilities. The importance of these statistics to the process of developing and maintaining policies that relate to people with disabilities in the United States cannot be overstated.