Today is the 25th year of the groundbreaking ADA now its been a good law in many ways adding public accessibility for the disabled, educational support, legal protections from gross care and treatment and lastly improved awareness of those with many disabilities. However much needs to be done employment is still difficult for the disabled with higher numbers, however if you include those who the market won't employ due to lack of ability its not exactly sure what the true numbers are. One change I would do to address this is amending the law to do the following: As a disabled person the ADA made one error if your born with a major disability and/or develop verifiable secondary disabilities as your young before age eighteen your not presumed to need government assistance for life. The default should be cradle to grave you will need government benefits from full disability and Medicaid/Medicare to some benefit to none based on your ability to get meaningfully employed. When not employed you should get help, if your partially employed some benefits and fully employed and independent then fine nothing. And further the expected income should consider health care needs so the overall benefits should need to match being on say SSI/SSDI plus Medicaid/Medicare plus housing etc. in a basic lower end formulae. Face it you can't make us employable all the time for the current career options, employers are biased and don't have to hire us and if for example you are physically disabled with a non-standard high school diploma or none your screwed. This would allow for a chance to work but if one is born or developed in childhood significant issues your never left without a valuable safety net which could be set lower end of self-sufficiency and require proper and broad enough documentation.
Decent informative news article for reference: http://tbo.com/health/-years-on-disabilities-act-has-changed-lives-of-millions-ap_health19b9aef5026f4bff9e49f701520a2496 Special note to the numbers of the disabled employed, I'm not sure how many though would be from bias or because the person is simply unemployable in the modern workplace.
