Demand-Side Employment

• A recent National Organization on Disability report (2007) indicated that only 35% of working-age people with chronic illness and disability are employed comparing to 78% of those without disabilities.

• Two-thirds of the unemployed persons with chronic illness and disability indicated that they would like to work but could not find jobs.

• Employment rates for people with disabilities has been hovering around 35% in the past two decades, even during the robust economy of the 1990s.

• Rehabilitation rates for people with disabilities after receiving state vocational rehabilitation services are about 60% varying by disability types.