The Cruelty of Good Intentions: Why Ending Subminimum Wage Hurts the Disabled

There are policies that are unjust because they fail to protect the vulnerable. Then there are those that are unjust because they punish the very people they purport to help. The Department of Labor's ongoing attempt to eliminate a provision in federal labor law that allows so-called "sheltered workshops" to pay workers with mental disabilities less tha…