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With more than five million employees nationwide, state employers can serve an important role in helping to reduce the unacceptably high unemployment rate among this nation's people with disabilities. On October 31, 2005, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published its Final Report on Best Practices for the Employment of People with Disabilities in State Government. The report reviews best practices in nine states - Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Utah, Vermont, and Washington - that promote the hiring, retention, and advancement of individuals with disabilities in state government jobs. The report also notes some policies and practices uncovered during EEOC's review that may inadvertently prevent some individuals with disabilities from getting or keeping state jobs.

On this Web cast, Chris Kuczynski, who supervised drafting of the Final Report, will be joined by representatives from Kansas, New Mexico, and Vermont to talk about some of the report's most significant findings.