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Sheltered workshops are meant to employ disabled adults as they prepare to enter the regular workforce. In Missouri, these workers rarely graduate to hi...

Sheltered workshops in Missouri pay disabled workers very low wages. They rarely help workers move on to higher-paying jobs.

Sheltered workshops are supposed to be temporary. In Missouri, they’re long-term employment at subminimum wages.

Sheltered workshops are meant to employ disabled adults as they prepare to enter the regular workforce. In Missouri, these workers rarely graduate to higher-paying jobs.

Sheltered workshops are supposed to be temporary. In Missouri, they’re long-term employment at subminimum wages.

Sheltered workshops are supposed to be temporary. In Missouri, they’re long-term employment at subminimum wages.

One weekday morning in July, Kerstie Bramlet was at her workstation inside the Warren County Sheltered Workshop near St. Louis, putting plastic labels on rabbit-meat dog chews one by one. Its legal to pay her a low rate because she works at what is known as a sheltered workshop.