more thoughts on H.R.3086 -- Fair Wages for Workers with Dis

Subject: more thoughts on H.R.3086 -- Fair Wages for Workers with Dis

Another part of this bill that is troubling to me is the following: 

(3) Today, advancements in vocational rehabilitation, technology, and training provide disabled workers with greater opportunities than in the past, and the number of such workers in the national workforce has dramatically increased.

 

We should request a breakout of the advances alluded to here.  What are they and how do they provide disabled people with greater opportunities?  Which disabled people?  All of us? 

It this is true why is the percentage of unemployed disabled people still over 60% and estimated as high as 70% among the blind? 

 

Broad generalizations such as the above can sound very tempting, because we want to believe that here is the solution to a serious problem. 

But we also need to know what this bill will leave behind it.  Where are the bill's assurances that once we all receive wage minimum we will still have our jobs. 

Who are the expert witnesses who are advising Congress that passage of this bill will result in greater job opportunity for the disabled? 

From where do they get their information. 

The list of unanswered questions is almost endless.  But if we do not have the answers we cannot make sound decisions. 

 

Carl Jarvis