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Highlights

Best Paper Award Won by Yang-Tan Researchers

Jennifer D. Brooks and Sarah von Schrader investigated how access to remote work for people with disabilities has been affected since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jennifer Brooks sits in her office while viewing the title page of her award-winning paper on her computer screen.
Best Paper Award Won by Yang-Tan Researchers

How Social Security Can Stop Penalizing Workers with Disabilities: Op-Ed

An op-ed in The Hill recommends improvements for how the Social Security Administration manages overpayments to workers with disabilities.
Jen Brooks, seated in her powerchair in the lobby of the Yang-Tan Institute, is smiling at the camera.
How Social Security Can Stop Penalizing Workers with Disabilities: Op-Ed

Wendy Strobel Gower Challenges Assumptions at Work

With a professional mission of challenging assumptions about limits around disability, Wendy Strobel Gower is the new Thomas P. Golden Executive Director of the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability.
Wendy Strobel Gower
Wendy Strobel Gower Challenges Assumptions at Work

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

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