by Pat Hartman | Sep 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
Late in May 2015, frequent Huffington Post contributor Arlene Nisson Lassin wrote about the Memorial Day flood in her area of Houston that affected about 4,000 houses, one of which belonged to her family. A series of posts described 99 varieties of pain — from the...
by Pat Hartman | Sep 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Let’s talk some more about the history and implications of the minimum wage and the sub-minimum wage. What we’re after here is to encourage people to sign the Petition to Support Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities. The TIME Act (H.R. 1377, short for...
by Pat Hartman | Sep 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
The minimum wage was created in 1938 immediately following the Great Depression. It is set by the federal government, although a state or city can adjust it upward, but not downward. The whole point of the minimum wage was to ensure that if a person put in 40 units...
by Pat Hartman | Sep 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), enacted in 1938, allowed for the granting of Special Wage Certificates, so that both companies and nonprofits could pay disabled people less, because of being less productive. Recently, House the Homeless urged readers to consider...
by House the Homeless | Sep 5, 2017 | Advocacy, Equity/Disasters, Resolutions
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