Disabled jobseekers look for a break

Here's our Monday story on the job market for people who have disabilities.

- Scott Nishimura, jobs and workplace reporter, Star-Telegram

 

 

(Photos: Left, Greg Williams serves customers at Cowboys-San Diego game; below, Joe Ramos on the job at Goodwill.)

 

 

Comments

[Career Colleges]

People with disabilities should be treated as equal people in the society. I've heard of successful disabled people and i find them very great!

[davidwr]

If a person has a disability that is unrelated to the job or which can be reasonably accommodated, he should be interviewed and considered for hiring without respect for the disability.

If a person's disability interferes with his job in a way that cannot be reasonably accommodated, I have sympathy and empathy but as long as we are in a capitalist society, "them's the breaks." While I don't qualify for ADA, I have health issues that prevent me from working effectively at some jobs that I have the training and skills to do. This has impacted my career. Fortunately, there are jobs available I enjoy that put bread on the table, and I am grateful for that.

For those who, due to disability, cannot earn enough to make a living, we as a society need to accommodate them. This means at least a little bit of charity or socialism injected into our capitalist economy. Whether it's companies being charitable by taking a loss hiring someone whose handicap makes them an inefficient worker, or whether it's the government subsidizing wages so companies are only out a portion of the payroll based on the worker's actual efficiency, we as a country and as a people owe our less fortunate brothers and sisters a chance to contribute as much as they can to society and earn enough to meet their basic needs.