Colorado urging businesses to hire people with disabilities

// April 7th, 2010 // Feature Articles

The state government is encouraging businesses to hire people with disabilities such as Down syndrome and bipolar disorder.

 

Nine people dispatched throughout Colorado since July are telling businesses about the capabilities of people with disabilities and programs providing incentives to hire them.

 

Many people with disabilities have a hard time getting work. In Colorado Springs, an estimated 29,299 people age 16 to 64 are disabled. About half of them were unemployed last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The statistics don’t reveal how many people with disabilities sought employment.  More: http://www.gazette.com/articles/people-27832-disabilities-colorado.html