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Disabled people face a lot of challenges when it comes to employment.

Discrimination in hiring, a lack of accessible office spaces,

coworkers who claim they're also disabled because they just can't do gluten

and there's a big issue getting a lot of attention right now about how much

disabled people get paid.

Minimum wage isn't the same for everyone.

Businesses can take advantage of a section of a federal act that allows them to pay

people with disabilities less.

Employers can apply for a section 14 C certification of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

That grants them the ability to pay workers with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage of 725.

This program was established under the Roosevelt administration with arguably good intentions,

war veterans who developed physical and mental disabilities from combat

came home from abroad and struggled to find employment.

There's no limit to how low an employer can pay, so employers could legally pay pennies per hour.

There are even places in America where workers earn as little as 22 cents an hour.

It's all perfectly legal.

Yeah, 22 cents an hour.

I mean, I don't know about you, but I was shocked when I heard that

because I don't think any human being should be earning less than a gumball machine.

Even in Africa, we'd see this and be like, what?

That's not even enough for a cup of coffee a day.

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