nTIDE Jobs Report: Employment Continues to Grow for People with Disabilities

West Orange, N.J. – May 8, 2015. Positive news continues as Americans with and without disabilities are participating in the labor force and finding jobs, according to today's National Trends in Disability Employment – Monthly Update (nTIDE), issued by Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire’s Institute on Disability (UNH-IOD). Social enterprise is one example of a successful strategy that is expanding opportunities for job seekers with disabilities.

In the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Jobs Report released Friday, May 8, the employment-to-population ratio for working-age people with disabilities increased from 25.3 percent in April 2014 to 27.0 percent in April 2015 (up 6.7 percent; 1.7 percentage points).  For working-age people without disabilities, the employment-to-population ratio increased slightly from 71.4 percent in April 2014 to 72.7 percent in April 2015 (up 1.1 percent; 0.8 percentage points).  The employment-to-population ratio, a key indicator, reflects the percentage of people who are working relative to the total population (the number of people working divided by the number of people in the total population multiplied by 100).  In comparison to April 2014, 337,000 more Americans with disabilities are in the workforce.

  

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