Sounds like being in prison. At a buck an hour 40 thousand people a year. Less than or just a little more than hundred a week each 40 hours a week, can't buy really nothing. All nonprofit organization?.
ANYONE who believes that workers are getting a raw deal may want to join a call for equal sharing of natural wealth. If people have some income separate from work income, they will not be threatened with becoming destitute if they choose to leave a job situation for whatever reason. (Anyone who believes that institutions, including the market, should function in a way that embodies Primary Values in practice should want natural wealth to be shared. No person made this wealth. No person has a more valid claim to a right to benefit from it.)
New to ‘Post Reports’ but, it would be beneficial if in addition to enlightening us about this abusive employer via recorded content, please use a video for the interview if those you are interviewing are willing. Please note: US disabled individuals are only permitted to earn a minimal amount of income via employment else they lose their SSDI and Medicare- both necessary for survival, albeit at a low-level. To be independent while on SSDI, one would have to earn an amount of pay which would result in their SSDI and Medicare being taken away. Additionally, many disabled individuals are capable of achieving much higher levels of work. While learning how to put combs of a certain color in a bag or detangling wire hangers may be useful to some of the abused employees, i.e. being part of a community and for the corporate employers who financially benefit from slave labor, I do not know what type of positions such training would lead to. Disability on its own is demoralizing but paying anyone $1.00 or less per hour is further demoralizing. No one can afford to be independent on that pay. As stated in this story, the employees live with family members which means- they are not learning to be independent from these ‘jobs’ nor will they be able to. ‘Pathways to Independence’ is great branding as company titles go but, this is far from a pathway to independence. It’s a pathway into a box. Prisoners earn more than these disabled individuals and even they are underpaid. By the way Pathway’s to Independence- some disabilities make it impossible for your employees to recognize that the menial amount you are paying them will offer them no ability to live independently or live at all. But I’m sure you’re well aware of that just as you’re aware that without a living wage, one cannot live- disabled or not. This program started during the Great Depression when the disabled were treated like 2nd class citizens. Pathway to Independence is treating the disabled as if they are useless. While you mentioned that some parents believe that no one will hire their disabled son or daughter, I know parents whose disabled son works at Marshall’s and he is provided another employee to assist him in his job. I’m sure that tragically, this is not the standard in the US but, it should be. Also, when one admits, when applying for a job that they have a disability (visible or invisible) they have little chance of being hired, despite their ability to perform well and even better than the other applicants.
ABLE accounts are a legal loophole for SSI/SSDI recipients to save money (and even invest) and NOT have that money count as an asset. They don't solve the earning problem you mentioned, though.
This is so right I have a friend who are a couple and he is 68 years old and he recently had major surgery for cancer and for years he was on SSDI and worked various jobs under the table for cash he started working regular jobs and this past year they're making less than they were a few years ago and he was completely cut off Medicaid. Now they have a bill for $7,000 and they're barely struggling.
And the truth of the matter is, a lot a sub minimum wage jobs programs are actually being eliminated so these people don't have any little bit of extra income in and I and I live here in Cleveland Ohio and I see many many many many many many of them on the streets now. I live in a suburb of Cleveland but the current mayor of Cleveland says there's only 200 people a night sleeping on the streets of Cleveland. Yeah right I can honestly say there's a thousand people or more living on the streets of Cleveland and probably in my county of Cuyahoga close to 10,000😢😢😢.
Another reason not to vote for Donald Trump because project 2025 will dismantle the department of Labor. I don't want to go down the rabbit trail that this would lead to if he gets in power because you know I will have to refer to a certain dictator from the 1930s and 40s.
Not sure how this is legal.
Interesting and Informative. Thank you.
Sounds like being in prison.
At a buck an hour 40 thousand people a year. Less than or just a little more than hundred a week each 40 hours a week, can't buy really nothing. All nonprofit organization?.
ANYONE who believes that workers are getting a raw deal may want to join a call for equal sharing of natural wealth. If people have some income separate from work income, they will not be threatened with becoming destitute if they choose to leave a job situation for whatever reason. (Anyone who believes that institutions, including the market, should function in a way that embodies Primary Values in practice should want natural wealth to be shared. No person made this wealth. No person has a more valid claim to a right to benefit from it.)
New to ‘Post Reports’ but, it would be beneficial if in addition to enlightening us about this abusive employer via recorded content, please use a video for the interview if those you are interviewing are willing.
Please note: US disabled individuals are only permitted to earn a minimal amount of income via employment else they lose their SSDI and Medicare- both necessary for survival, albeit at a low-level. To be independent while on SSDI, one would have to earn an amount of pay which would result in their SSDI and Medicare being taken away. Additionally, many disabled individuals are capable of achieving much higher levels of work. While learning how to put combs of a certain color in a bag or detangling wire hangers may be useful to some of the abused employees, i.e. being part of a community and for the corporate employers who financially benefit from slave labor, I do not know what type of positions such training would lead to.
Disability on its own is demoralizing but paying anyone $1.00 or less per hour is further demoralizing. No one can afford to be independent on that pay. As stated in this story, the employees live with family members which means- they are not learning to be independent from these ‘jobs’ nor will they be able to. ‘Pathways to Independence’ is great branding as company titles go but, this is far from a pathway to independence. It’s a pathway into a box. Prisoners earn more than these disabled individuals and even they are underpaid. By the way Pathway’s to Independence- some disabilities make it impossible for your employees to recognize that the menial amount you are paying them will offer them no ability to live independently or live at all. But I’m sure you’re well aware of that just as you’re aware that without a living wage, one cannot live- disabled or not. This program started during the Great Depression when the disabled were treated like 2nd class citizens. Pathway to Independence is treating the disabled as if they are useless.
While you mentioned that some parents believe that no one will hire their disabled son or daughter, I know parents whose disabled son works at Marshall’s and he is provided another employee to assist him in his job. I’m sure that tragically, this is not the standard in the US but, it should be.
Also, when one admits, when applying for a job that they have a disability (visible or invisible) they have little chance of being hired, despite their ability to perform well and even better than the other applicants.
ABLE accounts are a legal loophole for SSI/SSDI recipients to save money (and even invest) and NOT have that money count as an asset.
They don't solve the earning problem you mentioned, though.
This is so right I have a friend who are a couple and he is 68 years old and he recently had major surgery for cancer and for years he was on SSDI and worked various jobs under the table for cash he started working regular jobs and this past year they're making less than they were a few years ago and he was completely cut off Medicaid. Now they have a bill for $7,000 and they're barely struggling.
And the truth of the matter is, a lot a sub minimum wage jobs programs are actually being eliminated so these people don't have any little bit of extra income in and I and I live here in Cleveland Ohio and I see many many many many many many of them on the streets now.
I live in a suburb of Cleveland but the current mayor of Cleveland says there's only 200 people a night sleeping on the streets of Cleveland. Yeah right I can honestly say there's a thousand people or more living on the streets of Cleveland and probably in my county of Cuyahoga close to 10,000😢😢😢.
Bulgaria is a bridgehead for expanding the European nuclear power plant market
Another reason not to vote for Donald Trump because project 2025 will dismantle the department of Labor. I don't want to go down the rabbit trail that this would lead to if he gets in power because you know I will have to refer to a certain dictator from the 1930s and 40s.