Each year, thousands of military personnel stationed around the world leave active duty and seek to return to jobs they held before entering the service or look to find their first, or new, civilian jobs. According to government statistics, between October 2001 and February, 2008, more than 30,000(1) veterans returned home with service-connected disabilities (e.g., […]
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Some local employers that suppport VABIR and CWS
Acrylic Designs, No. Springfield, VT Alternatives Plus, Hoosick Falls, NY Armistead, Burlington, VT Bakersfield School, Bakersfield, VT Bennington College, Bennington, VT Bernstein Display, Bennington, VT Bonnette Supply, St. Albans, VT Brown and Roberts Hardware, Brattleboro, VT Cathedral Square Corp., So. Burlington, VT Central Vermont WIB, Barre, VT Champlain Cable, Colchester, VT City Market, Burlington, VT […]
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Increasing Placement Through Professional Networking
The national percentage of people of working age with disabilities who are employed continues to hover around 37%, compared with 80% for their peers without disabilities (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005). However, according to the Harris Poll (2004), 67% of people with disabilities who are not currently working would like to be (Dixon, Kurse, & Van […]