Opportunity Village is a sheltered workshop run by a CEO who makes $373,000/yr while exploiting Disabled workers by paying subminimum wages as low as $0.36/hr.https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2018/11/26/36-cents-an-hour-the-debate-on-subminimum-wage-is-here/ …
Today is the 29th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. I have found, visiting such places as the Center for the Blind & Opportunity Village (for the intellectually impaired) in Las Vegas, NV, that… https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Zv5_BhYHr/?igshid=1ki99sktvbo64 …
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How can this be legal?
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I, an actual disabled human, don’t even know where to begin with how many problems you’re perpetuating in this one post. These policy ideas are outweighed by a lack of basic understanding of disability issues like employment, language, and representation. Please stop.
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Stop trying to make things better?? have you no idea what MW is actually trying to do?? Look at what she has accomplished! She is on our side!!
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Maybe you should start listening to actually disabled people about disability issues. Not parents or doctors or therapists. Actual disabled people.
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The fact that you're posting in support of a segregated workshop whose CEO makes $373,000/yr while paying disabled people as little as 36 cents an hour shows that this post was performative for abled people and not AT ALL about listening to the disability community.
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You talk about economic advancement for people with disabilities while citing a segregated sheltered workshop that exploits disabled workers by paying pennies on the dollar?!?! These are settings that have been found to violate the ADA’s integration mandate? This is an insult.
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Thank you for the virtue-signalling and disability porn. I expect no more and no less of you.
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