'People with disabilities should be treated as equal to other people.”
have either passed legislation or issued regulations to eliminate the subminimum wage for people with disabilities, and ODEP is working with the Rehabilitative Services Administration to provide $167 million in grants to help states transition from subminimum wage and is supporting the Department of Education’s“The subminimum wage for workers with disabilities is a relic of a time when people with disabilities were viewed as unable to work and lacked federal protections,” Representative Robert...
announcing the initiative. “It is long past time that we help phase out the subminimum wage for people with disabilities and expand access to fulfilling employment and economic self-sufficiency.”, author, educator, activist, and One Fair Wage president Saru Jayaraman tells the story of a young Black woman named Frances Mablin who got a job at a Goodwill location in her hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Jayaraman agrees. “We want to ask the country, ‘Do we want to go into our next quarter millennium carrying these ugly vestiges of slavery and ableism and sexism and racism, or do we want to move to build back better?’” she tellsvia phone.
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