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October 2010

The impact of the 2007-09 recession on workers with disabilities

H. Stephen Kaye

New data available from the Current Population Survey (CPS) indicate that between October 2008 and June 2010, job losses among workers with disabilities far exceeded those of workers without disabilities; this labor market volatility resulted in the proportion of employed U.S. workers identified as having disabilities declining by 9 percent.

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