Part of the story includes the fact that most states in the U.S. still allow employers to pay disabled employees a sub-minimum wage.

Andjela H. Kaur is an Assistant Teaching Professor, Rehabilitation and Human Services at Penn State, Lehigh Valley.   She has taught or written about the political economy of disability, the labor history of disabled people, disability employment, disability unemployment, globalization and disability, professionalism and oppression, and disability bioethics.

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