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Friday, December 4, 2015

Stop federal contractors from profiteering off people with disabilities: ONLINE PETITION

The following is just part of the ONLINE PETITION for long overdue reform of the AbilityOne Program: 

The AbilityOne® program is mandated to award federal contracts to employ people with disabilities. Last year those contracts totaled $2.8 billion. However, some of those contractors are not hiring enough people with significant disabilities to comply with their federal mandates, or, when they do, contractors are paying some disabled workers sub-minimum wages and overwhelmingly employing them in segregated environments – all while they rake in tens of millions of federal dollars for their executives.
Investigations by federal agencies and news media have alleged massive corruption in the AbilityOne program. According to sources who spoke with CNN, it’s “one of the worst cases of fraud and mismanagement they’ve ever seen in a federal agency.” 

FOR MORE INFORMATION, AND TO SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION, GO TO:
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