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Bar chart depicting the employment rates for working-age people with disabilities (PWDs) and without disabilities (PWODs) in California, disaggregated by race. For white PWDs, the employment rate is 37.3%. For African American PWDs, the employment rate is 26%. For Hispanic/LatinX PWDs, the employment rate is 37.8% and for Asian American PWDs it is 40.7%. For white PWODs, the employment rate is 77.7%. For African American PWODs, the employment rate is 72.6%. For Hispanic/LatinX PWODs, the employment rate is 74.6% and for Asian American PWODs the rate is 75.3%.

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Eric Ascher

Eric Ascher (he/him) is the Senior Associate, Communications, at the disability advocacy nonprofit organization Disability Belongs™. Ascher is responsible for supporting the Senior Director, Marketing and Communications at Disability Belongs™ in developing and implementing advocacy efforts and communications of various types. He manages the organization’s social media channels, website, and emails; organizes and develops webinars; and supervises Communications Fellows.

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