Jalon Hall was featured on Google’s corporate social media accounts “for making #LifeAtGoogle more inclusive!” She says the company discriminated against her on the basis of her disability and race.
Also, disabled people are so disadvantaged in the job market (and a disabled Black woman, whose job accommodation requires an interpreter, no less), that it’s not a question of naïveté. It’s a question of *paying the rent*.
(Per the BLS, “In 2023, 22.5 percent of people with a disability were employed–the highest recorded ratio
since comparable data were first collected in 2008.” Look, ma, an improvement!)
Also, disabled people are so disadvantaged in the job market (and a disabled Black woman, whose job accommodation requires an interpreter, no less), that it’s not a question of naïveté. It’s a question of *paying the rent*.
(Per the BLS, “In 2023, 22.5 percent of people with a disability were employed–the highest recorded ratio
since comparable data were first collected in 2008.” Look, ma, an improvement!)