Hiring disabled workers? No time like the present.

• Date: 01 December 2022

For disabled workers, the pandemic has been both a crisis and an opportunity--a crisis because so many suffer from disability-related morbidities that make getting infected very dangerous, and an opportunity because remote work flourished. Plus, the shortage of workers has meant more chances for disabled applicants to be hired than ever before.

Hiring has been so good that the share of disabled workers employed now far surpasses pre-pandemic levels, according to the most recent Current Population Survey from DOL's Bureau of Labor Statistics. Gains for disabled workers have even surpassed gains by those without disabilities. More than 35 percent of workers with disabilities now hold jobs, while just 31 percent did so in 2019. That's a record since the Current...