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Workers with disabilities; Best Buddies Wisconsin helping fill jobs

Workers with disabilities; Best Buddies Wisconsin helping fill jobs

Workers with disabilities; Best Buddies Wisconsin helping fill jobs

Oct 25, 2024 | News, News Front Page |
Matt Purfuest at work

WILWAUKEE, WI. (FOX6 News) – The most untapped source for talent in the American workforce: that is what industry leaders are calling workers with disabilities.

October is Disability Employment Awareness Month, and there’s a Wisconsin nonprofit harnessing the gifts and many abilities of this group to fill jobs in the area.

Matt Purfuerst is one of the nearly 40 individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities Best Buddies Wisconsin has placed in a job.

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