$2.75 an Hour? The Shocking Secret of Goodwill Jodie Gummow - AlterNet
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Goodwill pays some disabled workers far less than the minimum wage, while some executives earn hundreds of thousands of dollars. (NBC News/Sibyl H)

Spreading Christmas 'goodwill’ during the holidays is what Goodwill donation centers claim to be all about. The company sells thousands of donated goods at low prices every year, particuarly around the festive seaon.

In fact, it has almost become part of our culture that when something is not useful to us anymore, we give it to Goodwill.

While part of Goodwill’s mission is also to give people jobs who have disabilities, a recent documentary reveals that the company is exploiting their workers with many legally exempt from minimum wage protection, NBC News reported.

According to the documentary, in the back rooms of Goodwill stores, disabled workers make far less then the federal wage of $7.25 an hour because of loophole in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

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