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Disability compounds employment woes for people with criminal records, and vice versa

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What to know about Disability compounds employment woes for people with criminal records, and vice versa

A study from Cornell's Yang-Tan Institute examines the employment disparities faced by justice-impacted individuals with disabilities. The research indicates that the intersection of disability and criminal records creates a compounding disadvantage in the labor market, with further variations based on race and gender.

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Disability compounds employment woes for people with criminal records, and vice versa Gaby Clark Scientific Editor Andrew Zinin Lead Editor Justice-impacted individuals with disabilities (JIID) are nearly 11 percentage points less likely to be employed than…

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The study, "Estimating the Intersecting Labor Market Disparities for Justice-Impacted Individuals with Disabilities: Evidence from Two United States National Data Sets," published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, found a compounding…

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More than half of people who have been incarcerated in the U.S.

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A study from Cornell's Yang-Tan Institute examines the employment disparities faced by justice-impacted individuals with disabilities. The research indicates that the intersection of disability and criminal records creates a compounding disadvantage in the labor market, with further variations based on race and gender.

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Claim 1: “The study, "Estimating the Intersecting Labor Market Disparities for Justice-Impacted Individuals with Disabilities: Evidence from Two United States National Data Sets," published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, found a compounding disadvantage for people with disabilities and criminal records.”
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Web search results explicitly identify Jennifer Brooks and Matt Saleh as authors of a 2025 study titled 'Estimating the Intersecting Labor Market Disparities for Justice-Impacted People with Disabilities: Evidence from Two United States National Data Sets', confirming the existence of the study and its focus on intersecting disparities.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The gender pay gap in the United States is a measure comparing the earnings of men and women in the workforce. According to Pew Research in 2024, women earned 85% as much as men, up from 81% in 2003. …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how groups' and individuals' social and political identities result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege. Examples of t…
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Claim 2: “More than half of people who have been incarcerated in the U.S. have some sort of disability.”
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The claim states 'more than half' (50%+), but the evidence from the Prison Population Initiative (February 2024 report) states that '40 percent of all incarcerated individuals have a disability'. This contradicts the 'more than half' assertion.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal c…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Army (U.S. Army) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is designated as the army of the United States in the United States Constitution. As a part of the …
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Claim 3: “white JIID females were 13.5% less likely to be employed than white females with disabilities without criminal records”
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The provided evidence contains no mention of the 13.5% statistic for white JIID females. Like Claim 0, this is likely a specific finding from the Brooks & Saleh study, but the evidence provided does not contain the data to verify it.
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Claim 4: “Justice-impacted individuals with disabilities (JIID) are nearly 11 percentage points less likely to be employed than people with disabilities who have not interacted with the criminal justice system”
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The provided evidence mentions general unemployment for people with disabilities and research into justice-impacted individuals, but does not contain the specific '11 percentage points' statistic. The claim likely comes from the specific study mentioned in Claim 1, but the evidence provided does not include the full text of that study to verify the number.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Justice Society of America (JSA) are a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. It was created by writer Gardner Fox and editor Sheldon Mayer during the Golden Age …
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Claim 5: “JIID women have lower employment rates than their male counterparts”
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The evidence mentions research into the experiences of justice-impacted individuals with disabilities, but does not provide a comparative employment rate between women and men in this specific group.
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web search NEUTRAL — Justice-impacted individuals include those who have been incarcerated or detained in a prison, immigration detention center, local jail, juvenile detention center, or any other carceral setting, those…
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web search NEUTRAL — Centre for Disability and Inclusion Africa, Gender-based violence against women with disabilities in Nigeria, 13 February 2024, url; Global Disability Fund, Situational Analysis on the Rights of Perso…
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web search NEUTRAL — This research explores how workplace policies, attitudes, and practices affect the experiences of justice-impacted individuals with disabilities with finding and keeping a job.
https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/yti/work/employer-attitudes-and-…
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Claim 6: “the employment gap between JIID and non-JIID people with disabilities is wider for women than men.”
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The search results for this claim returned dictionary definitions of 'difference' and 'différance' rather than data regarding employment gaps for JIID women versus men.
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web search NEUTRAL — Différance is a French term coined by Jacques Derrida. Roughly speaking, the method of différance is a way to analyze how signs (words, symbols, metaphors, etc) come to have meanings.
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · The meaning of DIFFERENCE is the quality or state of being dissimilar or different. How to use difference in a sentence.
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 1, 2025 · Percentage difference is usually calculated when you want to know the difference in percentage between two numbers. For this calculator, the order of the numbers does not matter as we ar…
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Claim 7: “People with prior justice interactions and people with disabilities already face employment rates below 50%.”
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The evidence discusses employment rates for people with disabilities in Ireland and general labor market discrimination, but does not provide specific current employment rate percentages for the US population of justice-impacted individuals or people with disabilities to confirm they are both below 50%.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In United States labor law, at-will employment is an employer's ability to dismiss an employee for any reason (that is, without having to establish "just cause" for termination), and without warning, …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services. Usually based on a contract, one party, the employer, which might be a corporation, a not-for-profit…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Employment Ice Age (Japanese: 就職氷河期, romanized: Shūshoku Hyōgaki) is a term in Japan that refers to a period starting around 1994 and ending by 2004 where young graduates, as well as those who had…
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