Missouri's Sheltered Workshops Have a 2.3% Graduation Rate — ProPublica
Sheltered workshops are supposed to be temporary. In Missouri, they’re long-term employment at subminimum wages.
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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. It's legal to pay her a low rate because she works at what is known as a sheltered workshop.