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The AbilityOne program is mandated to award federal contracts to employ people with disabilities. Last year those contracts totaled $2.8 billion. However, some of those contractors are not hiring enough people with significant disabilities to comply with their federal mandates, or, when they do, contractors are paying some disabled workers sub-minimum wages and overwhelmingly employing them in segregated environments – all while they rake in tens of millions of federal dollars for their executives. [Read more at change.org…]
Exploiting people with disabilities while purporting to help employ them is as reprehensible as it gets. The perpetrators of this fraud need to be in prison.