Why Taking Disability into Account is Essential To Reducing Income Poverty and Expanding Economic In

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Why Taking Disability into Account is Essential
To Reducing Income Poverty and Expanding Economic
Inclusion

• Shawn Fremstad
• Director, Sustainable and Inclusive Economy
  Initiative
• Center for Economic and Policy Research
• Washington, DC
• www.cepr.net/www.inclusionist.org
• fremstad_at_cepr.net

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The relevance of disability in the understanding
of deprivation in the world is often
underestimated ....
Amartya Sen, Winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in
Economics, former honorary president of Oxfam
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What is Disability? The Modern Consensus
Definition
http//bit.ly/GRban
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Source http//www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p70-11
7.pdf
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Source http//www.bls.gov/cps/cpsdisability.htm
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Working Age People (25-61) with Income Below the
Annual Poverty Line in 1997 By Disability Status
1 or More Disabilities
No Disabilities
Source Peiyun She and Gina A. Livermore,
Long-Term Poverty and Disability Among
Working-Age Adults, Journal of Disability Policy
Studies 2009 19 244.
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Working Age People (25-61) Experiencing Long-Term
Income Poverty (more than 36 months over a 4 year
period) by Disability Status
No Disabilities
1 or More Disabilities
Source Peiyun She and Gina A. Livermore,
Long-Term Poverty and Disability Among
Working-Age Adults, Journal of Disability Policy
Studies 2009 19 244.
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Relationship between Hardship and Disability
Status Among Low-Income Adults
Source Peiyun She and Gina A. Livermore,
Material Hardship, Poverty, and Disability Among
Working-Age Adults, Social Science Quarterly,
Vol. 88, Number 4, December 2007, pp. 970-981.