Bloomberg Law
Why Individuals With Disabilities Are Being Paid Below Minimum Wage
Wednesday, October 13, 2021,
By Sophie Gomprecht
, University Professor and chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute, was quoted in the Bloomberg Law article 鈥�.鈥�
Blanck discussed the unfair circumstances under which individuals with disabilities have been paid significantly less than minimum wage due to the 14(c) program. He said, 鈥淭here are people who can be moved to competitive employment and there are people who would have great difficulty doing that. We鈥檙e at a novel time where people are looking for ways to reform the 14(c) program, and it鈥檚 not as simple as just raising the minimum wage for everyone. You might have the same outcome whereby many people with disabilities who don鈥檛 need to be there just stay there.鈥�