Don’t take away jobs from intellectually disabled workers 

For years, disagreements have raged within the disability community regarding the federal Special Minimum Wage (SMW), which by law allows certain employers to operate work centers in which they pay intellectually/developmentally disabled (IDD) individuals less than the federal minimum wage. Such employers, overwhelmingly nonprofit service providers known as Community Rehabilitation Programs, were first established many decades ago, often by groups of parents, in order to provide a place for IDD individuals to work.