'Appalling' employment gap for disabled people needs urgent attention, advocacy group says
"Some people just think of disabled people as being, somehow, less than or not as good."
Source: nzherald.co.nz
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"Some people just think of disabled people as being, somehow, less than or not as good."
Disabled people are employed at half the rate of – and paid significantly less than – non-disabled people, new Stats NZ data shows. An advocacy group said
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