BrikoXCompanies can pay disabled people below minimum wage. The Biden admin wants to change that.
ArbitraryValuethose with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Would these people get hired at all if they have to be paid minimum wage?
No, they would not have jobs at all. With the extra supervision and care required, I seriously doubt these companies are saving money, and in fact are probably paying more than minimum wage at the end of the day.
I’m guessing it’s more of a “put people to work so they can feel productive and good about themselves” rather than “evil capitalist plot”.
OTOH, for all lemmy harps about the minimum wage, almost no one gets paid that.
The percentage of hourly paid workers earning the prevailing federal minimum wage or less edged down from 1.3 percent in 2022 to 1.1 percent in 2023. This remains well below the percentage of 13.4 recorded in 1979, when data were first collected on a regular basis.
www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2023/
So maybe paying them minimum wage wouldn’t make a difference?
Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2023
This report presents highlights and statistical tables describing workers whose earnings were at or below the federal minimum wage in 2023. In 2023, 80.5 million workers age 16 and older in the United States were paid hourly rates, representing 55.7 percent of all wage and salary workers. Among those paid by the hour, 81,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 789,000 workers had wages below the federal minimum.
m_fOTOH, for all lemmy harps about the minimum wage, almost no one gets paid that.
Is that cause or effect? I.e., is nobody paid that because it’s ridiculously low and hasn’t kept up with inflation? If minimum wage was $0.01, then the number of people paid minimum wage would be 0%, but I don’t think that’s a good thing.
but I don’t think that’s a good thing.
If we implemented reasonable a UBI then I could actually see eliminating minimum wage laws. There’s not much reason to have a minimum wage if everyone is already guaranteed a minimum income.