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Report: 18% of Americans have a disability
Rehab Private Practice Alert, May 31, 2006
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 18% of Americans (51.2 million people) said they had some form of a disability in 2002.
The same report said that 12% (32.5 million people) had severe disabilities.
Of people ages 21-64 with a disability, 56% of them were employed at some point in the past year, compared to 88% of the population with no disability.
The report defines a person having a disability if they have difficulty performing a specific activity such as seeing, hearing, or doing light housework, or have a specified condition, such as Alzheimer's disease or autism.
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