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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor Highlight

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There is no way of knowing how many more disabled workers are being mistreated and abused throughout the country at this very moment, and as long as the subminimum wage remains on the books, employers will continue to have more opportunities to perpetuate the cycle of exploitation. “People with disabilities should be treated as equal to other people,” Mablin told Jayaraman. “We have to buy clothes, buy food, things we need or things we like, like everyone else.”

— Kim Kelly

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