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Many With Disabilities Earn Far Less Than Minimum Wage. A Push For Equal Pay Continues

Advocates in one state are forging ahead after lawmakers opted not to join more than a dozen other states in ending the practice of allowing workers with disabilities to be paid subminimum wage.

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Many Minnesotans with disabilities earn far less than minimum wage. A push for equal pay continues.

DULUTH — Josh Haug patiently folded each towel from a massive green bin at Essentia Health's fitness center in Duluth on Tuesday, stacking them in neat piles. The 41-year-old, who has an intellectual disability, spends two shifts a week laundering and delivering clean towels to gym-goers — and earning more than minimum wage. It's a dramatic departure from the nearly two decades when he ...

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Push resumes to eliminate Minnesota's subminimum wage for people with disabilities

Push resumes to eliminate Minnesota's subminimum wage for people with disabilities
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CLE examines history of disability perceptions, protections

For many of us, the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon was an annual tradition that was benign, or maybe even inspiring. People with disabilities saw it another way.

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Breaking the Ice: Speaking up for people with disabilities

Justin Page, who has worked with people with disabilities for two decades, is representing their perspective as a newly appointed member of the Minnesota Commission on Judicial Selection.

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As transit agencies cut service, people in wheelchairs get stranded

The Americans with Disabilities Act allows transit agencies to suggest — not require — riders who use a wheelchair to move to a different seat on the bus.

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Justin Page Archives | KFAI - Minneapolis + St. Paul

Justin Page Archives | KFAI - Minneapolis + St. Paul
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Part 1: How Minnesota is failing the disabled

NOVEMBER 8, 2015 — 12:00AM
NUMBING WORK
Scott Rhude picked up trash near a landfill in Willmar, Minn. He makes $2 an hour and dreams of a better job.
WILLMAR, MINN.
In a field on the outskirts of town, a man with Down syndrome is spending another day picking up garbage.
He wears faded pants, heavy gloves, a bright yellow vest and a name tag that says “Scott Rhude.”
His job is futile. Prairie winds blow debris from a landfill nearby faster than he and his co-workers can collect it. In the gray sky overhead, a turkey vulture circles in wide loops.
Rhude, 33, earns $2 an hour. He longs for more rewarding work — maybe at Best Buy, he says, or a library. But that would require personalized training, a job counselor and other services that aren’t available.

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