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HARTFORD — Gov. Ned Lamont has announced that the Bureau of Rehabilitation Services, a division of the state Department of Aging and Disability Services, has been awarded a $13.9 million
From the column: "Paying all workers, disabled or not, the same wage confuses two types of equity."
"Without the subminimum wage allowance, even employers who want to hire the disabled will have a disincentive to do so," University of Minnesota professor Carlisle Ford Runge writes.
A group of bipartisan senators and representatives introduced legislation last week that would end subminimum wages for disabled people.
Voters approved proposals to tax the rich, build worker power, and make housing and education more affordable.