Presidential Document2021-21887
National Disability Employment Awareness Month, 2021
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October 5, 2021
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September 30, 2021
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 190 (Tuesday, October 5, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-21887]
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Proclamation 10270 of September 30, 2021
National Disability Employment Awareness Month,
2021
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
When we passed the Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA) 31 years ago, our Nation moved closer to
fulfilling its foundational promise of liberty,
justice, dignity, and equality for all. I was
enormously proud to co-sponsor the ADA as a member of
the United States Senate--a truly bipartisan effort
that was personal to millions of families. For more
than 60 million disabled Americans, the ADA is much
more than just a law. It provides a vital source of
opportunity and self-sufficiency, allows for increased
economic participation, and serves as a powerful shield
against discrimination in the workplace. National
Disability Employment Awareness Month is a chance for
us to celebrate workers with disabilities and recommit
ourselves to dismantling barriers to access and
inclusion in the workplace.
This year, the Office of Disability Employment Policy
in the Department of Labor celebrates 20 years of
helping advance opportunity for workers with
disabilities across the Nation. As part of its mission,
the agency remains at the forefront of emerging
challenges in the workplace, such as developing
comprehensive resources to ensure that workers
grappling with the long-term effects of COVID-19 have
access to the rights and resources they are due under
disability law--including flexibilities, tools, and
accommodations in the workplace.
Despite the progress our Nation has made in recent
decades, people with disabilities are still too often
marginalized and denied access to the American dream.
Americans with disabilities--particularly women and
people of color--have faced long-standing gaps in
employment, advancement, and income. The COVID-19
pandemic has compounded these inequities, as people
with disabilities have faced heightened risks--
particularly the disproportionate share of people with
disabilities employed in the hardest-hit industries.
Our Nation will never fully recover and rebuild unless
every single community--including disabled Americans--
is fully included.
My Administration remains focused on ensuring that
every single American has the chance to thrive,
succeed, and contribute their talents. That is why I
have issued Executive Orders to advance diversity,
equity, inclusion, and accessibility to bolster career
paths and promote economic stability for Americans with
disabilities. I have proposed eliminating outdated,
discriminatory provisions in the Fair Labor Standards
Act that allow employers to pay disabled workers less
than the minimum wage. Young people with disabilities
in particular must be part of an inclusive economic
recovery so that they can find the fulfilling careers,
apprenticeships, and futures they deserve in every
industry; to that end, we must promote the technologies
and tools, as well as the attitudes, that foster
welcoming work environments for young Americans. Our
Nation's future will be brighter and more secure when
everyone is dealt into the economy we build together.
All Americans should be proud that we have made
substantial progress since the days before the ADA--
when an employer could refuse to hire you because of a
disability, when a person using a wheelchair could not
take a bus or a train to work, and when a person with a
disability could be denied service in a restaurant or
grocery store. Now, 31 years later,
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it is the shared responsibility of all of us to tear
down the barriers that remain for people with
disabilities and to ensure that all Americans have the
chance to find good jobs and build good lives--for
themselves and for the good of our entire Nation.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 2021
as National Disability Employment Awareness Month. I
urge all Americans to embrace the talents and skills
that workers with disabilities bring to the national
recovery and to promote the right to equal employment
opportunity for all people.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirtieth day of September, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
sixth.
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