providing a few no- brainer basics. The owners are probably at their country homes and never even go to the store. Have "managers" and shift supervisors make sure everything runs and profits keep coming in. Grocery stores are doing very well during the pandemic. Prices are soaring in my neck of the woods.

Those We’ve Lost
Leilani Jordan, 27, Dies; Disabled, but Helping Shoppers

A victim of the coronavirus, she had been hired under a supermarket program for disabled people, but took care of customers less able than herself.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/us/leilani-jordan-dead-coronavirus.html



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In July 2018, there were about 153,000 U.S. workers with disabilities being paid a subminimum wage under federal law, according to the DOL. ... Some workers are paid less than $1 an hour, as their productivity is significantly lower than that of workers without disabilities.Feb 1, 2019
https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-news/pages/minimum-wage-bill-low-ends-pay-workers-disabilities.aspx



Department of Labor
Subminimum wage
https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/subminimumwage

month (if they collect from SSI or SSDI) and the amount they are given is already meager and in some areas its below the poverty level.

and tends to get swept under the rug by right-wingers. It is a very complex program to administer but can be done.

I had a blind neighbor that wanted to get some part-time work just to feel more worthy and to get out more, but it turned out he would lose money after he paid for transportation, and it was for only a few hours a day. Companies really do take advantage of those folks.

Louisville has a high concentration of services for the blind but they're struggling to survive due to Republicans in our legislature refusing to adequately fund those programs. This leaves many parents (especially out in the country areas) with blind or sight-impaired children with no help to get their child educated at all.

Seems like our society is getting more selfish and cruel with time, and this pandemic has halted any progress with many crucial human rights problems.

Thanks for posting that article and I enjoyed browsing the SHRM website too!

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Those that suffer in our society need a voice.

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and this...

...how is it fair the people who are on unemployment get an extra $600 a week on their unemployment checks while the people who are essential workers still have to work, don't get paid extra, still have to pay their bills and have more risk to get exposed. It's like saying 'thanks for being essential, hope you don't get sick...

my daughter asks this question often... she works in health field and makes much less that her brother who is not working at all

We do need to see to it that the essential workers taken care of too.

should get hazardous duty pay from federal/state gov't because without them, we wouldn't be able to go get food and medicine.

Years ago I told my daughter "The harder a person works here, the less they are paid" True then, still true now. Look at the deadwood in DC, especially the orange piece of deadwood in the WH.

So sad.

So damn sad

President.

She wouldn't have let fucking Putin get away with paying the taliban a bounty to kill our American Soldiers & UK's Soldiers, either.

for the whole entire week. Even minimum wage would pay more per week. Granted it's still pathetic her company paid her only that much money.

Let's change that. This also demonstrates extreme social and economic inequality. Let's change that as well.

Change is necessary
Inequality can no longer be tolerated

thank you for your post,
kp

Nobody should die that young for working that hard for such a pitiful wage while not being protected by their fucking employers who are supposed to insure their safety!

The poor woman. She didn't have a chance with bastards like this. They just used her because they could. It makes me so goddamned sick.

My condolences to her family. Rest in peace, dear Leilani.

such a loss.

Unbridled capitalism without responsible regulation is monstrous.