...better than, non-disabled employees, and that the average cost of employing a person with a disability is about the same as the cost of employing a non-disabled person. Yet, despite the high marks given to people with disabilities as hard-working, reliable and productive...

...Center for the Disabled indicated that accommodating disabled people is not expensive. They reported that the average cost of employing a disabled person...same as the cost of employing a nondisabled person. Case in point: Friendly's restaurant in Muncy, Pennsylvania, has employed dozens of people with disabilities...