The Labor Department is planning to review a policy allowing companies to pay workers with disabilities a subminimum wage. Plus, what would a government shutdown look like for federal employees?
Federal regulations permit companies to apply for special certificates that allow them to hire disabled workers and pay them an average of less than $4 an hour.
There’s still a narrow window for the world to keep global temperatures from increasing by more than one-and-a-half degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels. But to do that, annual investments in clean energy will need to more than double in the coming years, according to a report out this week from the International Energy Agency.
If the government shuts down this weekend, hundreds of thousands of federal workers spread across the country will have to go without pay — and some would still have to work. We hear the impact this would have on people’s livelihoods.
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