I was curious about the handicapped women and men I saw working in the Goodwill stores. They were preforming duties I had previously saw an employee of goodwill doing. There was a person overseeing the women working so I asked her what was going on. She said they actually worked for Goodwill and received a paycheck but they didn't get paid very much, she said maybe$3.50/hr because they were handicapped. Appalled, I called Goodwill and asked to speak to someone in Human Resources. The woman who I spoke to told me that was correct. She said that Goodwill has a contract with the US government that allowed them to pay these workers less money so they could still collect their social security disability payment! She wouldn't tell me the exact rate of pay. I just think it's deplorable that the handicapped people Goodwill claims to be helping, aren't making a decent wage. Why not pay them minimum wage and give them raises as they do their other employees. The women and men only come into the stores to work once a week for 3 hours. I doubt that paying them minimum wage for that amount of time would out then over in the allowable amount they can legally earn and still collect their disability check!
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