In the video, it starts out with Goodwill hiring special needs workers for less than minimum age which stated in the film being $7.25 per hour. Unfortunately there was loophole in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; the loophole makes it legal for people who suffer from disabilities to be paid less than the minimum wage. Goodwill’s regional supervisor conducts a speed test for each employee working in the sheltered workshop every six months. Dr. Maurer, the president of the federation of the blind is the current leader in the important fight to close all sheltered workshops. The workshops take the people, and it basically is telling them that they are not worth as much as the rest of the population. The leaders of Goodwill are exploiting …show more content…
In some of these families both parents work multiple jobs, and that does not provide the full amount of money to keep the family afloat. Rent is the most expensive part of a person’s fees like this example where “Some parents forked out what they made at one job entirely on rent.” (p.89) Records also show that “Often, there was little left for food after the rent was aid. Working families went hungry at the end of the month. (p.90) When people are put in a tough spot where working part time or full time is out of the picture; it gives them the opportunity to either sit back and do nothing about it and complain ; or make money where it is possible and trust in God. George, who is one of many stroke victims that are physically unable to work, did something that I thought was very different, and stood out compared to how most other people would react. This is the part where it gets really cool. George was asked the question “Did his family ever go hungry” (p.91), and he responded by