10/02/2026
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, a time to recognize the talent, leadership, and contributions of workers with disabilities.
It is also a time to face the facts.
In 2025, only 22.8% of people with disabilities were employed, compared with 65.5% of people without disabilities.
That gap is not about ability. It is about access, opportunity, and the support people need to succeed.
Medicaid-funded disability services can help people with disabilities prepare for work, get to work, stay healthy enough to work, and build independent lives. For many people, support like job coaching, transportation, personal care, and community-based services are what make employment possible.
This NDEAM, letโs do more than celebrate workers with disabilities. Letโs protect the services that help more people enter, remain in, and thrive in the workforce.
Tell Congress to protect Medicaid disability services.
Take action: https://easterseals.quorum.us/campaign/162500/