Hello, hello, welcome to your extra morning news show.

My name is Philip DeFranco, and today we're going to be talking about something

you might not be aware of, you might not have seen coverage of,

and that is sub minimum wage.

Right, so not minimum wage, sub minimum wage,

because there's actually a portion of the United States

workforce that's getting paid a lot less than the federal minimum wage of $7.25

an hour and here I'm not talking about undocumented workers I'm also not

talking about tipped workers right not waitresses or bartenders who can technically make below minimum wage either.

I'm talking about people with disabilities.

And that's because in the United States, it's actually perfectly legal for a disabled person

to be paid as little as a penny an hour.

And while that may sound shocking

the issue of sub minimum wage has actually divided disability advocates for years.

Some have called the practice outdated and a basic civil rights issue while others

say provides work for people who might never have had a chance to work otherwise.

So today we're going to take a deeper look into how employers can pay disabled workers below a minimum wage,

and we're also going to be hearing from people inside the disability community on where they stand on the issue.

Some of the people you'll hear from today

are individuals who work at a nonprofit in Las Vegas

that pays some of its workers below minimum wage.

If you're a disability advocate and you're trying to make the news, then I think it's easy to launch a target

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