Disabled Workers Earned 26 Percent Less Than Non Disabled In 2020 Report
The “stark pay gap” between workers with and without disabilities in the U.S. is part of what the progressive think tanks’ researchers described as “pervasive discrimination and a litany of structural barriers to economic security and upward mobility.” The release of the report, titled “Economic Justice is Disability Justice,” comes more than two years after COVID-19 was officially declared a global pandemic. Researchers described the pandemic as a “mass disabling event....