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October 2, 2025 11 mins
Stats referenced on OneLegUpAlex Adapts as it is disability employment awareness month: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/o...

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, well, today is
the first day of October and it's also for the
one Leg Up Alex Adapts crowd the first day of
Disability Employment Awareness Month. And I couldn't think of a
better company to partner with this whole month to sponsor
all the segments when we talk about disability employment Awareness

(00:24):
and of course all the adaptive stories in October than
Tripper Corp. I mentioned them a couple of weeks ago.
The as they say, wheelchair accessible, Mercedes, Transit and minivans
all inclusive handicap ac Saysible Travel agency. Eric Ryan is
the proprietor at Triple Corp, and of course he reached

(00:45):
out to me and said, hey, let's partner on this
for the month of October. I say, yes, let's do
this because, as you may know, Uber's in a lawsuit
with the DJ about the way they handled people disabilities.
As you may also know, Uber and Lyft are not
available outside of New York City, basically New Jersey, Connecticut,

(01:07):
Long Island. They're not there, But you know who is
Tripper Corp is, and I'm so excited that they've come
alongside One look Up Alex this month to say yes,
we want to partner with you and help sponsor these
segments along the way. So I'm very honored that Tripper
and they also want to let me know that they
are hiring and they have hired people with disabilities as

(01:28):
their dispatchers for Tripper Corp. Getting the messages and calls
are those disabilities, So not only transporting and taking care
of the disabled community getting them to destination, but also
hiring them along the way. So Tripper Coorp dot net
is the website that's Tripper Corp. Tri pp r corp

(01:52):
dot net now One Leg Up Alex Adapts covered it
briefly yesterday on the One Leg of Alex podcast that
the fair affairs for LR disabled passengers will be all day,
half fair, all day. Why this is so meaningful I
wanted to get into this more is because right now,

(02:13):
if you're a personal disabilities and you work, and you work,
you have to pay thirteen dollars an hour in the
peak travel in the morning. And I know I've said
this before, but the reasoning they gave me was, well,
guess what we think that the people disabilities just commuted
for leisure purposes and medical appointments but they forgot a

(02:35):
very important part at the LR, at the MTA that
people with disabilities do work. This Employment Disability Awareness Month,
I have to say, people do work, and I'm gonna
get you some SATs on this as well. But for
the LR to be so narrow minded up until now
when the board approved that all day, every day, every

(02:58):
hour is going to be eighty eight as for those
who disabled passengers, it meunts my heart because, as you know,
we were in the Daily News about this. I sent
my op ed, my column about how there is to
be fairness on the rails for people with disabilities. Well,
the LR is finally recognizing that months later and the

(03:18):
board has approved it. But for the LR and others
that say, well, people disabilities may not work, I want
to challenge that idea. I want to challenge that today
because I came on there with stats a few years ago.

(03:41):
But here's what the US Department of Labor is saying
right now on the first day of Disability Employment Awareness Month.
Did you know that from twenty twenty four to now,
the labor participation rate is up to forty two percent

(04:01):
from forty percent now, the employment rate did drop, did
increase a little bit from eight point one day to
eight point eight, but from the ages of sixteen to
sixty four there's a two percent increase. From the ages
of sixteen plus there's a one percent increase. And I

(04:31):
think this is important to note that people with disabilities
in twenty twenty four, from ages sixteen to nineteen was
twenty seven percent. Twenty twenty twenty to twenty four year
olds forty six percent with a disability. We're working. As
of last year, we're working. It's a total between sixteen

(05:02):
years and four of forty percent of forty percent, with
a lower unemployment rate of eight point one. So people
with disabilities work. Even Tripper Corporate is sponsoring this series
this October. I'm very excited about that people work, and yes,

(05:24):
equal opportunity employers, but I want to see more of
that put into practice, not just by employers but by
our own transit systems. And you know, the myth in
which is why Tripper is so important also is well,
people with disabilities don't go out after ten pm. That's
bull crap too. People go out of ten pm with disabilities.

(05:45):
That's why Trippers there. Slowly are we working, but we're
active people. We are active people. So I'm very glad
the l took the stand, but I'm also very glad
that Tripper is filling a void where Uber and Lyft
just do not, just do not. And not only that,

(06:05):
Eric Ryan and his team are helping people get to
baseball games, are helping people get to work. They only
higher people, then they help people get to work as well.
So it's a multi fasting company, just like we are
a multi faceting community that needs to be highlighted not
just in October or July, but every month. That's why
the one that got Alex adapts feature is always active, right,

(06:28):
because there's always stories. I gotta do better with it
because sometimes the news and the sports of the day
get to my head. But I think you should know
that con the Department of Labor. According to the Department
of Labor, the working age population has an increase to

(06:53):
forty two percent forty two percent from forty percent. The
employment population ratio is thirty eight percent. And I can
get into the breakdown of white, Hispanic, black way. No,

(07:15):
I just wanted to be generic and say people disabilities
are working and they're being hired, and that's so important
to know, and we gotta keep on that trend upward.

(07:35):
We've got to keep on that trend upward. And I'm
so thankful that Tripper exists to get people to and
from their workplace. They're yeah, places that they go for leisure,
they're medical appointments. They do it better than Uber, they
do a better than lift, and God bless it, they
probably do it better than the public transportationism, which our

(07:56):
tax is funded, by the way. So I had to
come on here and fire it up for the first
day of October. Almost through age thirty three. We're almost there, people,
October twenty nineteen days away. Kind of excited to and
if you're religious, I'm sorry to say this, but get

(08:16):
through my Jesus here because it would mean I'm mortal, okay,
which would be nice to feel mortal. But anyway, I'm
definitely not perfect, that's for sure. But anyway, we're almost
there to thirty four. I cannot wait to get out
of the Jesus here. It'll be nice. It'll be nice
when I'm not running from taxis. That's even better. That's

(08:38):
even better. But I had to come on here the
first day of October Employment and Discibility Employment Awareness Month.
We're gonna talk a lot about it. Here are the
one lug Up Alex podcast and we're gonnat into the
small business. I want to talk to the people that
I was an idea sparked. We with check in with
them on their businesses during this month. Because see that

(08:59):
the converse say about people disability seems to stop as
soon as the ADA anniversary is over, doesn't it. Well,
here this podcast is not gonna stop. And yet probably
it's because I'm more involved in the community than many
other podcasters and many other people. But also it's because
I've seen how inaccessible this city can be and we

(09:20):
have to change that. We have to change that. My
friend Sherry, she wrote to the USTA about their accessibility
issues at the US opened a couple of years ago,
and maybe things change, I don't know, but their accessibility
issues all over the place. The met Opera need a
one million dollar elevator from our tax paying dollars. Yes,

(09:44):
I'm all for the ADA accessibility, Yes, but they can
be doing it on theirselves, on their own. As another
partner of mine in the podcast world, Derek's Bags rights
by funding it theirselves. So we've got a lot to change.

(10:04):
We have to rely on ourselves. To be more accessible
and self reliance will carry the table community even farther.
I really believe that, And look at the self reliance
of the forty two percent that are working with the

(10:24):
disability as of August twenty twenty five, a two percent
jumb who's talking about this. Nobody is. Nobody is except
we are. And that's why we're trying to have one
lug up for you to say you can be hired
today two. And that's how one leg up Alex helps

(10:47):
people adapt by just saying it. You can do it too,
You too can have one lug up on life. This
Disability Employment Awareness Month twenty twenty five
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