Publisher: University of Montana Rural Institute
Topics: Supported Employment Practice-Business Intelligence, Workplace Solutions – Disability Specific Workplace Inclusion
Year published: 2019
Type of resource: PDF

Employment disparity grows for rural Americans with disability is a fact sheet published by the University of Montana Rural Institute.

“Employment rates have increased since the recession, but these gains haven’t reached all communities across the country, nor has everyone benefited from these gains. While overall employment rates have improved, employment for people with disabilities in rural areas has decreased.

This fact sheet uses the recently released American Community Survey 5-year estimates to explore changes in employment rates for people with and without disabilities across the nine divisions of the United States, and for metropolitan, micropolitan, and non-core counties. This marks the first time longitudinal trends in ACS data can be explored across the rural-urban continuum using comparable definitions of disability.”

Access this resource here: Employment disparity grows for rural Americans with disability.