http://www.hud.gov/content/releases/fy2008annual-rpt.pdf

Reports that more than 10,500 housing discrimination complaints were filed with federal authorities during 2008, with the highest number of complaints relating to disability and the second highest to race. From the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/ssi_sc/2008/index.html

Offers statistics on the number of recipients and amount of payments by state for the program that provides assistance to low-income elderly, blind or disabled persons. From the Social Security Administration.

http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/07-543

7-2 Supreme Court decision that rejected the claims of four women that their pension calculation should include time spent on pregnancy leave between 1968 and 1976. The law treating preganancy no differently than other disabilities was not passed until 1979. From Findlaw.com

http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm76/7611/7611.pdf

Reviews the past ten years since minimum wage legislation was first passed in Great Britain in 1999, evaluates the impact of the minimum wage on different groups of workers, (especially women, youth, migrant workers, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities) and also examines the current apprentice exemptions. Command Paper Cm7511.

http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2009/rp09-042.pdf

Describes an attempt by the British Parliament to harmonize existing law which outlaws various types of discrimination into a more coherent whole. Proposes a new legal framework for equalities legislation, and includes a section on statistical aspects of social inequality, including age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, ethnic minorities, religion, sexual orientation and gender pay gap. House of Commons Library Research Paper 09/42.

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/supplement/2008/

The major annual statistical compilation on U.S. social insurance and welfare programs. Covers the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance and the Supplemental Security Income Programs of the Social Security Administration plus major health care programs--Medicare and Medicaid--and social insurance programs such as workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, temporary disability insurance, Black Lung benefits, and veterans' benefits. From the Social Security Administration.

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/barriers/

Subtitled: Perspectives of Families and Staff Supported by the Adoption Opportunities Program. Outlines the findings of two adoption-research studies involving families trying to adopt children with special needs. One study looked at barriers to the adoption process while the other looked at factors that contributed to successful adoption outcomes. From the Children's Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsdisability.htm

Introduces the beginning of a new data series on the employment status of people with a disability. Reports that the unemployment rate for people with a disability was 13.2% in January 2009, compared to 8.3% for people without disabilities. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p70-117.pdf

Provides estimates of the socioeconomic characteristics of people with disabilities. Also provides estimates for different categories of disabilities and offers some comparisons with data collected for a 2002 report. From the Census Bureau.

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009453

Examines the relationship between various characteristics of students with disabilities and the probability that they would be included in the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests. From the National Center for Education Statistics.

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/di_asr/2007/index.html

Provides information about the history and benefits of the program, the appeals process, and provides statistics for benefits paid over the past year. Disability benefits were paid to 8.1 million people and the average monthly benefit received was just over $1,000. From the Social Security Administration.