Are people more accepting of mentally disabled workers in the workplace?
No, they are not accepting of people with physical disabilities much less people with mental disabilities and here are just some of the stats to back that up. * Out of 36 million disabled Americans, 15 million are of working age. Only 5 million have jobs and of the 10 million who don’t, 60 percent of them have been on disability unemployment for so long that the US Dept. of Labor doesn’t include them on the ranks of the unemployed. (Which makes the unemployment rate for PWD’s at a staggering 66.67%) * A qualified person with a disability has a 1 out of 100 chance of getting a job when compared to people with similar qualifications who don’t have a disability. * There are an estimated 43 million individuals with disabilities in this country. Disability touches nearly one out of every 2 adult Americans. * Of people who are 16-64, about 18.2 million (12 percent) have a disability that affects their work. Of these people, 8 million were prevented from working by their disability. * An anal
