One frustrating thing about this is that disabled people do need job support, but this is rarely what’s actually needed. I’ve been disabled for 20 years; I don’t need some job coach at my doctor to give me advice about it. I need workplaces to be accessible and for accommodations to be mandatory and enforced, and I need not to be discriminated against or treated like a child just for being disabled and not to be socially ostracized. Even better would be a guaranteed job and a trained person to help place me where my skills, education, interests, and access needs best fit.
If they actually wanted disabled people to work more, they could use this money elsewhere a lot more effectively, but I guess getting to that conclusion would force them to question too much about how capitalism creates ableism and what it would take to treat disabled people as equals in the workforce.
One frustrating thing about this is that disabled people do need job support, but this is rarely what’s actually needed. I’ve been disabled for 20 years; I don’t need some job coach at my doctor to give me advice about it. I need workplaces to be accessible and for accommodations to be mandatory and enforced, and I need not to be discriminated against or treated like a child just for being disabled and not to be socially ostracized. Even better would be a guaranteed job and a trained person to help place me where my skills, education, interests, and access needs best fit.
If they actually wanted disabled people to work more, they could use this money elsewhere a lot more effectively, but I guess getting to that conclusion would force them to question too much about how capitalism creates ableism and what it would take to treat disabled people as equals in the workforce.