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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.

Missouri’s first sheltered workshop shifted focus to support disabled employees in the traditional workforce. Five years later, here’s a look at the lasting effects.

Subminimum wages and sheltered workshops were seen as innovative solutions for the disabled community when they were made legal in the 1930s.