6-19-12: Employing the Disabled

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A voicemail message from listener Mary O'Toole, about her struggle to find employment as a disabled person, prompted the question: what is the labor market like for disabled Americans?

We talk with Kate Fialkowski, Executive Director of The ARC of Maryland, about barriers to employment for the disabled and how changes in technology are breaking those down. 

We also hear from The National Federadtion of the Blind, which recently called for a boycott against Goodwill in an attempt to make them change their employment practice of paying some disabled employees less than the minimum wage. In response we hear from Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc, our local Goodwill organization.