Webster Enterprises makes medical curtains. It has worked with schools and other institutions to employ the disabled, hopefully as rehab. The disabled have been paid subminimum wage plus piecework, and that used to be OK. Now, the committee enforcing the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act wants him to pay minimum wage or let the poor suckers sit around and collect welfare. Management at Webster calculates paying everybody a minimum wage will remove incentives to produce more and better product and put the company out of business.
Don’t you just want to scream? Gummint doesn’t think The Wee People need productive engagement. Us nincompoops is acolytes in need only of power verbs from our leaders.
