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Sixty percent of employers who hired an employee with a disability reported that the average cost of adapting their office to meet the employee's needs was $500 or less. Three out of four employers who hired an employee with disabilities reported no need to make any new workplace accommodations.

Source: Rutgers University John J. Heldrich Center for Work Force Development

Of college graduates ages 25­–64, 22 percent have a severe disability, 33 percent have a non-severe disability, and 43 percent don't have any
disability.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

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