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September 1998

Persons with disabilities: Demographic, income, and health care characteristics, 1993

Douglas Kruse

Due to lower rates of employment and other labor market difficulties, working-age persons with disabilities tend to have lower income and are more likely to live in poverty than persons without disabilities; those with severe disabilities are more likely to be female, African-American, older, and less educated than those without disabilities

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