National Disability Employment Awareness Month

In honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month we at City Personnel have taken the initiative to find some statistics on disability in the US just for you. I know, you've been wondering why has it taken us this long?  I mean we're already 11 days in!  Well I apologize for the delay, and fully blame it on Columbus and his holiday, but without further a due here are the stats:

• In the US 54 million people have a disability
• West Virginia has the highest percentage of people with a disability at 18.8% of the population
• Utah has the lowest percentage with only 8.9% of the population having a disability
• Hearing difficulty is experienced by 10.2 million people, of these 10.2 million, 5.8 million are 65 or older
• Visual problems account for 6.5 million people
• Roughly 13.5 million people struggle to concentrate or make decisions, of these 2.1 million are aged 5 to 17.
• Approximately $35.3 billion has been received by veterans for service connected disabilities for 2008
• Around 21% of the population over 16yrs old with a disability are below poverty level
• Nearly 72% of disabled people over the age of 16 are not in the workforce