(Washington, D. C.)    The National Governors Association Chair Delaware Governor Jack Markell testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions for a hearing titled “State Leadership and Innovation in Disability Employment.”

Gov. Markell is focusing his yearlong Chair’s Initiative, A Better Bottom Line: Employing People with Disabilities, on the employment challenges that affect individuals with intellectual and other disabilities and the roles both state governments and businesses can play in advancing employment opportunities for these individuals.