The relationship of disability to poverty is of increasing interest to policy makers as persons
with disabilities are being mainstreamed into national poverty reduction programs. However …

A major public policy problem is the extremely low labor force participation of people with
severe mental illness coupled with their overrepresentation on the public disability rolls. This …

Employment is the highest priority for many people with severe mental illness and it is a
central aspect of recovery. Over the past two decades, the Individual Placement and Support …

Abstract Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence-based practice for helping
people with severe mental illness (SMI) gain competitive employment, yet those who could …

Ruby Payne, CEO of aha! Process, Inc., and author of A Framework for Understanding
Poverty (2005), has become one of the most influential figures in the US public education …

Medical sociologists and sociologists of disability study similar topics but, because of
competing or conflicting theoretical paradigms, tend to arrive at different conclusions …

The relationship between disability and poverty has been recognised in the literature since
the 1990s. Empirical evidence supporting the existence of this relationship has increased in …

Introduction The proportion of workers reporting disabilities varies tremendously across
occupations. Although differences in the occupational distributions may partly explain the …

Laura Smith argues that if there is any segment of society that should be concerned with the
impact of classism and poverty, it is those within the “helping professions”—people who …

Purpose: This paper presents the results of a scoping review of the research literature on
community-based employment for individuals with intellectual disabilities from 2000 to 2010 …