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Circle of Champions

The NFI Circle of Champions (CoC) is the distinguished group of U.S. businesses that have received the Secretary of Labor’s New Freedom Initiative Award for innovative and proactive efforts to recruit, hire, and promote people with disabilities. The CoC participants work with ODEP to help inform disability employment policy by sharing proven business strategies that result in hiring, retaining and advancing the careers of talented employees who have disabilities.



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Disability
Employment
Situation

July 2009


Percentage of people with disabilities in the labor force:

  23.0%

Unemployment rate of persons with a     disability:

    15.1%

 

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