DISABILITY SCOOP: After Ending Subminimum Wage, States See Workforce Gains
As federal officials consider ending a program that allows employers to pay people with disabilities less than minimum wage, a new study suggests that doing so has little downside. A new study published in the journal JAMA Health Forum, researchers looked at what happened in New Hampshire, which passed legislation in 2015 to do away with subminimum wage employment, and Maryland, which approved a phaseout of the program in 2016.