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Disability Implications of an Aging Workforce
This research is looking to identify actions that can be undertaken to increase the employment of mature workers with disabilities. Research will identify what is currently known about the impact of increasing incidences of disability in the labor supply on the policies and practices of the U.S. public workforce system. Through conversations with noted scholars, business leaders, and national experts in the area of disability and aging, the NTAR Leadership Center will look to identify how best the workforce system can respond to and serve increasing numbers of mature workers with disabilities with the goal of developing a set of actionable policy, research, and technical assistance recommendations.
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Long-Term Unemployed Workers with Disabilities
This research is part of an ongoing analysis being conducted by the NTAR Leadership Center of Unemployment Insurance recipients and the prevalence of a self-reported disability. Center research is focused on learning more about the characteristics of the current dislocated worker population and, in particular, those long-term unemployed individuals who are unable to find employment in under 26 weeks. In addition, the Center is gathering data on promising reemployment practices for long-term unemployed workers with disabilities taking place today in states and local areas The research findings will be disseminated and form the basis of a technical assistance and knowledge exchange strategy for states looking to improve their reemployment efforts.
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