The Labor Department says the effort, disclosed in December, is necessary because 79.2% of working-age people with functional disabilities are out of the labor force entirely, compared with 30.5% of people without disabilities, a longstanding gap.
Using imaging, scientists have shown that meditation can improve the functional performance of specific circuits in the brain and may reduce age-related shrinkage of several brain centers, particularly those that may be vulnerable in disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.