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Minimum-Wage Misfire Also Harms Disabled People
Bundled in the minimum-wage increase in the COVID relief bill was an abolition of subminimum wage for disabled people. Thatâs now gone too.
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Project SEARCH intern Timmy Frazier works in the cafeteria of Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie, Wyoming, October 10, 2017. Project SEARCH was developed as an initiative to secure competitive employment for young people with disabilities.
Last week, an extremely popular $15 minimum-wage hike was struck from President Bidenâs COVID relief package, when the Senate parliamentarian decided it wouldnât fit within budget reconciliationâs âByrd Rule.â Progressives have been angered by one unelected bureaucratâs decision to deny 27 million Americans a raise. But the decision also removed a provision that has received considerably less attention: the abolition of subminimum wage for disabled people.