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Goodwill exploits workers with penny wages [English Subtitles]

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    It's a part of American life, when something is no longer useful to you
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    you give it to Goodwill you drop it in the Goodwill box,
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    perhaps in the supermarket parking lot near you
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    and you've then done something good, with something you no longer can consider good
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    you may know that Goodwill donation centers employ disabled workers
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    but you may not know that some of those workers are legally exempt from minimum wage protetection
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    that means that some end up making just pennies per hour.
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    It is legal, but tonight Harriet Smith takes on the question of fairness.
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    Goodwill, a place where you feel good about leaving your old clothes,
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    a place where you feel good about shopping in a tough economy.
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    Goodwill's mission is give jobs to people who are down on their luck, or have a disability.
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    Goodwill does a lot of good, no question about it.
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    But in bathrooms like this one, in Great Falls, Montana,
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    Out of sight of donors and shoppers
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    there is something going on that many disabled people do not feel so good about
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    People with disabilties working for less than the Federal Minimum Wage of
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    of $7.25 an hour. There are even places in America where Goodwill workers
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    earn as little as $0.22 and because of a loophole in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938,
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    it's all perfectly legal
Title:
Goodwill exploits workers with penny wages [English Subtitles]
Description:

Goodwill pays some disabled workers far less than the minimum wage, while some executives earn hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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10:25

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