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In Depth interviews - October 4

On the In Depth show blog, you can listen to the interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day and links to additional resources.

Tags: Justin Swartzlander , Sue Trombley , In Depth , Francis Rose

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Fear hinders hiring people with disabilities

This week is the two-year anniversary of President Barack Obama's executive order to hire 100,000 more people with disabilities into the federal government by 2015. But the government is not on track to meet that goal, only hiring 20,000 people with disabilities for fiscal 2010 and 2011 combined, according to the Office of Personnel Management. As of fiscal 2010, less than 1 percent of the federal workforce had a targeted disability.

Tags: Labor , ODEP , Veta Hurst , EEOC , hiring , management , disability hiring , discrimination , best practices

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Labor toolkit helps in disability hiring

The five-step online toolkit has tips for everything from creating a welcoming environment to do's and don'ts for interviews.

Tags: Labor , disabilities , Barack Obama , executive order , hiring , Dorobek Insider

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New disability.gov Web site premieres

Tags: technology , Web 2.0 , Labor Department , Office of Disability and Employment Policy ,

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