Obama’s Wage Hike For Federal Contractors Won’t Apply to Disabled Workers

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63. Absolutely I do...

do you?

Pat is an 40 year old man. He is an individual with a significant intellectual disability. He is non-verbal. He lives in a group home with 3 other men. They have 2 residential support workers that are with them in the house from 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm, and help them with personal care, with meals, and with the work that needs to be done around the house. They have an overnight support worker who comes in at 11:00 pm and is with them until 7:30 the next morning.

In the morning, Pat is and his housemates are picked up in a van and taken to a sheltered workshop. There, they do light duty packaging with the help of their vocational support workers. There might be 6-8 support workers for the 30 to 40 people working at the workshop.

It is in no way demeaning to recognize the simple truth that Pat, and thousands of others like Pat, are not capable of working outside of the sheltered workshop environment. What job at Walgreen's do you think Pat could do?

Sid