According to the popular tech blog engadget.com, Google has announced that it is funding a $20 million grant for its latest Impact Challenge, which is aimed at making the world more accessible for those with physical and intellectual disabilities.

Specifically, the new Google Impact: Disabilities program seeks to "build awareness, identify solutions and help create universal access for people with disabilities."

 

They have already successfully teamed up with non-profit startups like Mission Arm, E-Nable and World Wide Hearing, and are looking to fund even more solutions - to the tune of $20 million.

And they're asking for help from people on both sides of the issue to help them do it - people (or those whose family are) living with a disability as well as innovators, inventors and tinkerers.

Want to get involved? 

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You may have read that title and thought “Wait a minute, isn’t a legally enforced minimum pay rate the point of Minimum Wage?”

Or maybe even, “Hmm…there’s a MediSked logo on this page – but surely this must be an Onion article.”

It does sound rather ridiculous, doesn’t it?

So ridiculous in fact, that I got a little bit worked up sitting down to write this post.

My original title was similar to many other news outlets’ stories:  “New Hampshire Just Made It Illegal to Pay People with Disabilities Less than Minimum Wage”. Then I thought about it.

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Here at MediSked we have a special place in our hearts for the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Our company was founded by two RIT grad students, much of our tech ops team has come out of RIT, and a couple of the folks in our Rochester office are actually still students there.

It’s a phenomenal school and we’re incredibly proud of our affiliation(s).

We’re also incredibly proud of Team P15010, a group of four engineering students in RIT’s senior design program. They’ve spent the better part of the last year building an awesome (and impressive) wheelchair swing for the Arc of Monroe County.

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Yet, Florida's iBudget Waiver reimbursement rates for the providers offering essential supports and services are on average 14.17% lower today than they were IN 2003! 

Forgive my bold font, but that's absurd!

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