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Bar graphs showing money in wages and percentages of people with various disabilities who earned those wages.



Visual Still Information

Title: Opportunity Wages
From: The Goodwill Way: 1946 Annual Report, Goodwill Industries Of America
Original caption: Opportunity Wages. . .Paid by Local Goodwill Industries 1926-1946
1926 $943,000, 1931 $1,730,00, 1936 $1,977,000, 1941 $3,067,998, 1946 $5,581,518
TURNING DISCARDS INTO TIME CARDS
Handicaps
10% Blind, Deaf or Defective Speech
14% Mental, Emotional or Social Handicaps
17% Non-Handicapped
20% Handicapped by Age or Infirmity
39% Orthopedic or General Health Handicaps
HANDICAPS REPRESENTED AMONG GOODWILL EMPLOYEES (as of December 1946)
Creator: n/a
Date: 1946
Source: Goodwill Industries International, Inc., Archives, Robert E. Watkins Library