Tom Harkin: “About 63 percent of people with disabilities are unemployed, who want…”

On the recordJanuary 26, 2009

About 63 percent of people with disabilities are unemployed, who want to work and could work, but they are unemployed--63 percent.

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Harkin highlights the high unemployment rate among people with disabilities.

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