Disabled people deserve equal pay, too. Let’s start fighting for it | Mary O’Hara

People with disabilities in the UK and US are less likely to have a job and when they do they earn less, says writer Mary O’Hara

Disabled people launch the Work With Me project in 2017, which aimed to get 1m people into work by 2020 Photograph: Matt Alexander/PAhowever, despite people with disabilities on average earning significantly less than their non-disabled counterparts, we tend to hear much less about it. This needs to change. The ongoing inequities faced by people with disabilities are myriad and we should be investing as much time as we can in exposing each of them – and demanding solutions.

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