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Why Taking Disability into Account is Essential To Reducing Income Poverty and Expanding Economic Inclusion Shawn Fremstad Director, Sustainable and Inclusive.

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1 Why Taking Disability into Account is Essential To Reducing Income Poverty and Expanding Economic Inclusion Shawn Fremstad Director, Sustainable and Inclusive Economy Initiative Center for Economic and Policy Research Washington, DC www.cepr.net/www.inclusionist.org fremstad@cepr.net

2 “The relevance of disability in the understanding of deprivation in the world is often underestimated....” — Amartya Sen, Winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, former honorary president of Oxfam

3 What is Disability? The Modern Consensus Definition http://bit.ly/GRban

4 Source: http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p70-117.pdfhttp://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p70-117.pdf

5 Source: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsdisability.htm

6 Working Age People (25-61) with Income Below the Annual Poverty Line in 1997 By Disability Status 1 or More Disabilities No Disabilitie s Source: Peiyun She and Gina A. Livermore, “Long-Term Poverty and Disability Among Working-Age Adults,” Journal of Disability Policy Studies 2009; 19; 244.

7 Working Age People (25-61) Experiencing Long-Term Income Poverty (more than 36 months over a 4 year period) by Disability Status 1 or More Disabilities No Disabilitie s Source: Peiyun She and Gina A. Livermore, “Long-Term Poverty and Disability Among Working-Age Adults,” Journal of Disability Policy Studies 2009; 19; 244.

8 Relationship between Hardship and Disability Status Among Low-Income Adults Source: Peiyun She and Gina A. Livermore, “Material Hardship, Poverty, and Disability Among Working-Age Adults,” Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 88, Number 4, December 2007, pp. 970-981.

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