JJ was recently featured as a guest blogger on ThinkBeyondTheLabel.com where she wrote about the most effective way to get businesses to pay attention to the disability marketplace and open their doors to hiring people with disabilities.

“It will take a serious coming together of the physical, developmental and mental health disability member groups to take disability awareness to the next level with businesses.  We must use the power of our wallets to communicate with businesses as consumers.  Like it or not, that is the best shot the disability community has to achieve full community integration – maybe the only shot.”

Read the full post here, or visit: http://www.thinkbeyondthelabel.com/Blog/post/There-is-No-Disability-Marketplace.aspx

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