[Balgair]

In a few states you are allowed to pay people with 'severe' disabilities under minimum wage.

The idea is to incentivize companies to hire these people for otherwise unprofitable work and mostly to get the disabled out of the house and earning some money that they otherwise would not.

For example, most of the prescription glasses made in the US are made by blind people under such a scheme.

Honestly, it sounds terribly exploitative. But, from what I understand, these schemes are mostly successful in that the disabled are happy with it along with the employers.