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Highlights

New Website Helps Businesses Follow the Americans with Disabilities Act

Research-based website explains how small businesses can best follow the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and welcome customers and employees with disabilities
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New Website Helps Businesses Follow the Americans with Disabilities Act

YTI Asks, ‘Can Career Coaching Be Transformative?’

Researchers are evaluating an Oregon-based career program for people with disabilities that includes a coaching component.
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YTI Asks, ‘Can Career Coaching Be Transformative?’

Improving Employment in New York

YTI’s recent efforts in our home state of New York have included improving opportunities for people with disabilities to obtain competitive, integrated employment and supporting New York’s efforts to become a model employer of people with disabilities.
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Improving Employment in New York

In the News

These disabled people tried to play by the rules. It cost them their federal benefits

NPR
Debora Wagner, senior extension associate with the Yang Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, discusses the challenges of using Supplemental Security Income.
These disabled people tried to play by the rules. It cost them their federal benefits

I have a disability and I found a job I love. Social Security is making me pay dearly.

The Hill
In this opinion piece, Jennifer Brooks, a research associate at the Yang Tan Institute, explains how Social Security penalizes disabled workers.
I have a disability and I found a job I love. Social Security is making me pay dearly.

Matthew Saleh Wins Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Award

Cornell Chronicle
Senior Research Associate at Yang-Tan Institute recognized for his work on career pathways for youth with disabilities and other barriers to employment.
Matthew Saleh Wins Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Award

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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