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Highlights

New Disability Benefits at Work Website

A new free website explains work incentives that assist people who receive government disability benefits with moving ahead in their careers.
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New Disability Benefits at Work Website

Career Successes Inspire at YTI

After a decade of training supported employment specialists in New York, the Yang-Tan Institute shares some successes and looks to the future.
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Career Successes Inspire at YTI

ADA Anniversary a Reminder about Disability in the Workplace

The Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability shares tips related to the ADA, approaching its 33rd anniversary.
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ADA Anniversary a Reminder about Disability in the Workplace

In the News

Labor Department Moves to End Disability Hiring Goal for Federal Contractors

Mother Jones
Sarah von Schrader, director of research and program evaluation at the Yang-Tan Institute in the ILR School, comments on a proposed rule from the Department of Labor to end a required disability hiring goal for federal contractors.
Labor Department Moves to End Disability Hiring Goal for Federal Contractors

Employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities is #Solvable

The Rockefeller Foundation
Susanne Bruyère shares how engaging businesses can help to identify, reach, train, and support disabled populations who may have been previously overlooked to empower talent and provide them with employment opportunities.
Employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities is #Solvable

Cornell Keynotes Podcast: Neurodiversity Inclusion Policies and Practices at Work

Cornell Chronicle
In an episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast from eCornell, Susanne Bruyère, academic director of the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, discusses the growing number of corporate affirmative hiring programs to recruit individuals who are neurodivergent.
Cornell Keynotes Podcast: Neurodiversity Inclusion Policies and Practices at Work

In New York State

YTI Works for New York State

Partnering with state agencies, policymakers, and communities across New York state to support efforts to increase employment of people with disabilities

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