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People With A Disability More Than Twice As Likely To Experience Deprivation & Poverty.

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The ESRI says Ireland has the fourth lowest employment rate among people with a disability in the EU.

People with a disability are more than twice as likely to experience poverty and deprivation than those without.

That's according to a new ESRI study.

It also highlights that people with a disability in Ireland are more than twice as likely to experience poverty and deprivation than those without.

Author of the report, Elish Kelly, says there's also a significant gap between those with and without a disability when it comes to education:

 


Ireland has the fourth lowest employment rate among people with a disability in the EU.

The findings also show 30 percent of adults with a disability have a third-level education, compared to 47 percent of those without.

Author of the report, Elish Kelly, says more needs to be done to help young people with a disability transition to college

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