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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brian Williams\NIt's a part of American life, when something is no longer useful to you,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you give it to Goodwill. You drop it in the Goodwill box,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perhaps in the supermarket parking lot near you,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you've then done something good, with something you no longer consider good.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may know that Goodwill donation centers employ disabled workers,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you may not realize that some of those workers are legally exempt from minimum wage protection.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means that some end up making just pennies per hour.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is legal, but tonight, Harry Smith takes on the question of fairness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Harry Smith: Goodwill, a place where you feel good about leaving your old clothes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a place where you feel good about shopping in a tough economy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goodwill's mission is give jobs to people who are down on their luck, or have a disability.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goodwill does a lot of good, no question about it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in back rooms like this one, in Great Falls, Montana,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of sight of donors and shoppers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is something going on that many disabled people do not feel so good about.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People with disabilties working for less than the federal minimum wage of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of $7.25 an hour. There are even places in America where Goodwill workers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,earn as little as $0.22 an hour.\NAnd because of a loophole in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's all perfectly legal
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sheila Leland: That's ridiculous.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Harry Smith: Harold and Sheila Leland have been married for more than twenty years. Both are blind and both have college degrees.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sheila worked at the Goodwill facility in Great Falls, Montana, earning about $3.50 an hour for four years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She says she quit last summer when they lowered her wage to $2.75 an hour.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sheila Leland: At $2.75, it would barely cover my cost of getting to work. I wouldn't make any money.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Harry Smith: They call the facility "the plant," and Harold still works there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It operates what's called a "sheltered workshop."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here the disabled get virtually guaranteed employment, but they are not guaranteed minimum wage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that doesn't matter to some of the workers. Jeremy Davidson loves it here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Harry Smith: You love it here?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jeremey Davidson: I love it here, more than the world, yes. I also love NASCAR, but this and NASCAR are my two favorite things in life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Harry Smith: But for others, it is a dead end, a job of last resort in a world in which there are few options.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's your wage right now?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,$5.46 an hour.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,$5.46 an hour?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that could change in a few months.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It could change because sheltered workshop wages are determined by a speed test
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every six months
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goodwill staff use a stop watch to see how many items of clothing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Harold can hang in a minute.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're allowed two mistakes, and then anything else after that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your quality is considered poor.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, your perecentage of wage goes down.