Employment Report Shows Strong Labor Market Passing by Deaf Americans
![This is an image with green background. On top there is the text " Deaf People and Employment in The United States: 2019", then below that, it's written as " Carrie Lou Garberoglio, Jeffrey Levi Palmer, Stephanie Cawthon, and Adam Sales. At the bottom, there is an illustration of a figure of three men and three women placed in alternate order one next to each other. The third in order is a figure of a man in green color and is lifted by an image of a hand while the rest all the other five-figure are white and on the ground.](https://nationaldeafcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Image-8-22-19-at-10.19-AM.jpg)
Unemployment in the United States recently hit a 49-year low. However, the strong U.S. labor market is passing by hundreds of thousands of deaf Americans, according to findings of a new employment report by the National Deaf Center.