Sheltered workshops are meant to employ adults with disabilities as they prepare to enter the regular workforce. But in Missouri, these subminimum-wage workers rarely "graduate" to higher-paying jobs ...

Sheltered workshops, once considered a progressive alternative to institutionalizing the developmentally disabled, could soon be artifacts of a different era and philosophy. New York State ended new ...

Over 1,000 people with developmental disabilities will be able to leave sheltered workshops for competitive employment under a proposed settlement in a first-of-its-kind class-action lawsuit. The U.S.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The state legislature is now in its second special session after Governor Eric Greitens criticized it for not getting more done during the regular session. Lawmakers approved a ...

A settlement in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit is set to reshape a state-run employment program for people with disabilities that has been heavily dependent on sheltered workshops. Under an agreement ...

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) - Legislation that would raise salaries for those working in Missouri's sheltered workshops is on its way to the governor. About 5,600 mentally disabled Missourians are employed in ...

Our 21-year-old son with autism just graduated from high school. His transition plan for a sheltered workshop was derailed by the federal government's announcement that Workforce Innovation and ...

Proposed changes to a federal rule have people who operate sheltered workshops concerned. President Joe Biden administration's stimulus bill, known as the American Rescue Plan, would eliminate Section ...

As details from President Joe Biden's stimulus bill emerged last week, concerns grew it would cause the end of sheltered workshops. The workshops employ people to do a wide range of tasks that ...

While touring the Batavia Public Library Friday, a group of about 20 people turned a corner and gasped when they saw a familiar sight. Displayed on the wall in a corner behind the shelves of books ...

Former U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall, joined by Bob Joondeph, executive director of Disability Rights Oregon, announced in 2013 that the U.S. Department of Justice had joined a federal lawsuit that ...

Our team is no longer actively reporting on this issue. Thanks to all who participated. We are journalists from ProPublica and The Kansas City Beacon. We want to know what it is like inside sheltered ...