Make Affirmative Action Meaningful

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Make Affirmative Action Meaningful

By Guest Blogger Robert Bernstein, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

As pundits debate the implications of the latest unemployment data, far too little attention has been paid once again to the pervasive, dramatic underemployment of people with serious mental illnesses. This population is truly forgotten by most media, policymakers and thought leaders. However, the Obama Administration has an important opportunity to make strides in addressing this issue – when the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs releases its proposed rules on affirmative action requirements for federal contractors hiring people with disabilities. 

These businesses employ 22 percent of the country's workforce; so the rules will have a significant effect on the labor market. That is why the rules should include specific targets for hiring people with mental illnesses, intellectual disabilities and other highly stigmatized disabilities, who have experienced, historically, some of the steepest barriers to employment – and for all the wrong reasons...

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