People living with disabilities face unique daily challenges that can present barriers to employment. The COVID-19 pandemic led to soaring unemployment rates for people with disabilities, and these rates have not declined as quickly in New York as they have nationally.1 In addition, the national share of people with disabilities who are working reached a new high in 2022, while the share in New York continued to decline from pre-pandemic levels. These data highlight the continued need for solutions that facilitate increased employment for people with disabilities in New York.
According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey, there were 827,200 people with disabilities between the ages of 16 and 64 living in New York in 2022, representing 6.7 percent of the working-age population. Nationally, about 7.9 percent of the working-age population has a disability.2 Between 2020 and 2022, the number of working-age people with disabilities grew 14.4 percent in New York and 10.9 percent nationally.
As shown in Figure 1, the national employment-to-population ratio for working-age people with a disability declined by 1.8 percentage points in 2020 to 29.1 percent. Since then, it has increased steadily to 34.7 percent in 2022, the highest rate on record dating back to 2009.3 In contrast, the ratio declined by only 0.5 percentage points in New York in 2020 and has continued to decline to 26.1 percent in 2022. New York’s ratio was 8.6 percentage points lower than...
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