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Expanding Opportunities for Workers with Disabilities

Chart II: Employment Participation of Working-age Adults in Maine by Disability Type

In general, employment participation is highest among adults with hearing and vision difficulties and lowest among those with self-care, and independent living difficulties (see disability definitions from the ACS). About half of adults with hearing difficulties, and one third of adults with vision difficulties, reported work in the 2009 ACS. By comparison, less than one in five adults with self-care and independent living difficulties were employed.  Twenty-three percent of adults with any ambulatory disability were employed, and twenty-five percent of adults with cognitive disabilities reported work.

Between 2008 and 2009, there were particularly large declines in the employment rate for adults with vision, hearing and independent living difficulties. The employment rate among adults with vision difficulties fell most dramatically, from 47 down to 34 percent, a reduction of 13 percent.

 

Source: Muskie School of Public Service calculations using the 2008-2009 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS)

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