National Disability Employment Awareness Month, 2017

Vol. 82

Wednesday,

No. 191

October 4, 2017

Part II

The President

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Proclamation 9646--National Disability Employment Awareness Month, 2017

Proclamation 9647--National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, 2017

Proclamation 9648--National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, 2017

Proclamation 9649--National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, 2017

Proclamation 9650--Child Health Day, 2017

Executive Order 13811--Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory
Committees

Executive Order 13812--Revocation of Executive Order Creating Labor-
Management Forums

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 9646 of September 28, 2017

National Disability Employment Awareness Month,
2017

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

During National Disability Employment Awareness Month,
we celebrate the many contributions of American workers
with disabilities and reaffirm our admiration of the
skills and talents they bring to today's workplace.

Every American who is willing and able to work should
have the opportunity to provide for themselves and
their families. This includes the 30 million American
adults with disabilities. Many Americans with
disabilities struggle to find employment opportunities,
despite the wealth of skills they have to offer. In
2016, only 27.7 percent of working-age Americans with
disabilities were employed. More employers should
recognize the fresh perspectives and skills these men
and women can add to an innovation-focused workforce.
They are an incredible asset to our economy. Our goal
is to help ensure that they experience the
independence, economic self-sufficiency, pride, and
community that come with a job.

Creating and maintaining a strong and robust American
workforce is one of my Administration's top priorities.
We will ensure that people who want to work have the
support they need to remain on the job. Employees,
along with their employers, their families, and the
economy all suffer when they are forced to leave the
labor force due to illness or accident. We must be able
to act quickly to support these workers in their time
of need. I, therefore, have directed the Department of
Labor, the Social Security Administration, and other
Federal agencies to identify effective strategies to
help people stay at work or return to work, focusing on
early intervention with Americans recently rendered
disabled due to injury or a health condition.

We are committed to giving all Americans opportunities
to gain the skills they need to fill the jobs of the
21st century. We know that includes Americans with
disabilities, who want to work, provide for themselves
and their families, contribute to their communities,
and build up our Nation. We will stand alongside them
to help turn their American Dreams into reality.

The Congress, by Joint Resolution approved August 11,
1945, as amended (36 U.S.C. 121), has designated
October of each year as ``National Disability
Employment Awareness Month.''

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim October
2017 as National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
I call upon government and labor leaders, employers,
and the great people of the United States to recognize
the month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and
activities across our land.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord
two thousand seventeen, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
second.