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Companies can pay disabled people below minimum wage. The Biden admin wants to change that.
(www.motherjones.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2024
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Would these people get hired at all if they have to be paid minimum wage? I figure that they have the option of applying for jobs normally rather than through these programs, so they would already be doing so if they could get hired that way.
No, they would not have jobs at all. With the extra supervision and care required, I seriously doubt these companies are saving money, and in fact are probably paying more than minimum wage at the end of the day.
I'm guessing it's more of a "put people to work so they can feel productive and good about themselves" rather than "evil capitalist plot".
OTOH, for all lemmy harps about the minimum wage, almost no one gets paid that.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2023/
So maybe paying them minimum wage wouldn't make a difference?
Is that cause or effect? I.e., is nobody paid that because it's ridiculously low and hasn't kept up with inflation? If minimum wage was $0.01, then the number of people paid minimum wage would be 0%, but I don't think that's a good thing.
If we implemented reasonable a UBI then I could actually see eliminating minimum wage laws. There's not much reason to have a minimum wage if everyone is already guaranteed a minimum income.