Funding for Businesses Owned by People with Disabilities
Employed people with disabilities are nearly twice as likely to be self-employed than are employed people without disabilities (15 percent versus 8 percent). Many are business owners who just happen to have a disability. Others are self-employed because they could not find a job due to the barriers to employment that people with disabilities often face.
As Ted Kennedy Jr., a disability civil rights attorney and board chair of the American Association of People with Disabilities, has stated, hiring managers often disregard people with disabilities, seemingly on the presumption that people ...
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