How to bring down the nation’s high
unemployment rate and create jobs for millions of people seeking work
dominated last weekend’s confab of governors in Williamsburg, Va.,
setting the stage for an admittedly “niche initiative” targeted at
employing people with disabilities. “There are a lot of people who want
to be working in our country, and aren’t given a shot,” says Delaware
Gov. Jack Markell, who was selected by his peers to head the National
Governors Association (NGA) for the next year.
With
so many able-bodied people out of work, why would Markell choose to
focus on the special-needs community? It’s not politically correct to
even ask such a question, but Markell has a ready answer, and he is not
the least fazed by the unseemliness of the inquiry. He says hiring
people with disabilities is good for the bottom line of companies that
are doing it, which means it’s good for the shareholders. “It’s not just
for charity,” he told The Daily Beast. His NGA initiative is dubbed “A Better Bottom Line: Employing People With Disabilities.”
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