disability measure used, annual poverty rates are two to five times higher among people with disabilities, compared to those … poverty, and 65 percent of those in poverty according to a long-term measure. Disability may receive little attention in the … between long-term poverty and long-term disability, as well as outdated perceptions of the relationship between disability and …

Roughly 21 million women (15.6 percent of all women) in the U.S. have a disability. For women ages 21 to 64—the years … during which people are most likely to be employed—about 13 percent, or 11 million, have a disability. This article … work limitation live in households below the poverty level, as compared to about 26 percent of men with a work limitation. …

, poverty, and other measures. This book reviews what current data on this population can and cannot tell us, as well as how … be accomplished by the use of common disability-related questions on existing survey data sets; expansion and …

Disability Insurance (SSDI)-only beneficiaries who meet the federal definition of poor, compared with those who live in higher …-income households. The findings help explain why many fall into poverty despite the support of SSDI. …

This report details how the dominant framework for understanding and measuring poverty in the United States has become … a conservative one. The current U.S. approach to measuring poverty views poverty only in terms of having an extremely … low level of annual income, and utilizes poverty thresholds that are adjusted only for inflation rather than for changes …

Disability is both a fundamental cause and consequence of income poverty. The income-poverty rate for persons with … about income poverty in the United States is largely silent about disability. This paper argues that we need to have a … broader view of what poverty is and also that disability must be taken into account in anti-poverty policy. …

Each year, millions of workers in the United States develop a chronic illness, disability, or other serious medical … may end up relying on public programs such as Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Supplemental Security Income …

The Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND) tests variants of Social Security Disability Insurance program rules …