Sunday, August 14, 2011

More than 10,000 disabled workers in Wisconsin paid below minimum wage

From the Green Bay Press-Gazette. In the picture, David Jones of Green Bay sews elastic on a coverall he is helping to assemble working at Aspiro.About 10,000 disabled people are paid below the minimum wage in Wisconsin. Their jobs are generally menial — assembly and packaging tasks performed in workshops with dozens of others — and sometimes the pay is as little as a penny per hour. And it's