Article
The Disability-Employability Divide: Bottlenecks to Equal Opportunity
Michigan Law Review
(2015)
Abstract
Joseph Fishkin’s new book, Bottlenecks, reinvigorates the concept of equal opportunity by simultaneously engaging with its complications and attempting to simplify its ambitions. Fishkin describes bottlenecks as narrow spaces in the opportunity structure through which people must pass if they hope to reach a range of opportunities on the other side. A significant component of the American opportunity structure that Bottlenecks leaves largely unexplored, however, relates to people with disabilities. This Review applies Fishkin’s theory to explore how disability law creates and perpetuates bottlenecks that keep people with disabilities from achieving a greater degree of human flourishing. In particular, disability policy’s opportunity structure features a conceptual disability–employability divide that ultimately prevents people with disabilities from reaching a wider array of opportunities. Fishkin’s book, in concert with this Review, introduces new and inventive ways of reimagining and implementing structural solutions to these bottlenecks.
Keywords
- equal opportunity,
- disability,
- benefits,
- employment,
- bottlenecks,
- administrative law,
- welfare,
- social security disability insurance,
- social security income,
- social security administration,
- work-first initiatives
Disciplines
Publication Date
2015
Citation Information
Brad Areheart. "The Disability-Employability Divide: Bottlenecks to Equal Opportunity" Michigan Law Review (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/brad-areheart/13/