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Vancouver Public Library offers employment resources for persons with disabilities

Peak Web July 19, 2026

By: Niveja Assalaarachchi, News Writer In The Compass, a man named Ernest shared his story. He grew up in foster care, and at age six he started to lose his hearing. As a young man, he looked for jobs to help out his family, but got rejection after rejection. “Job after job, the hiring manager or hiring team would take one look at me with my hearing aids and a speech disability and determine before I got through an interview that I could not do the job,” he wrote.  Gaps in employment opportunities continue to emerge for people with disabilities.…

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