PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WORK:
AMERICA BENEFITS

Custodial Case Studies

This brief presents the results of a study that evaluates how employment in Public Buildings Service (PBS) custodial contracts through the Javits-Wagner-O’Day (JWOD) Program reduces workers’ use of Government entitlements and increases taxpayer contributions. The JWOD Program is an employment and training program for people who are blind or have other severe disabilities. Originally created in 1938 to provide job opportunities for people who are blind, the Wagner-O’Day Act was expanded in 1971 to include people who have other severe disabilities and was renamed the Javits-Wagner-O’Day Act. Read more
 

Food Services Case Studies

This brief presents the results of a study that evaluates how employment in food service contracts through the Javits-Wagner-O’Day (JWOD) Program reduces workers’ use of Government entitlements and increases taxpayer contributions. The JWOD Program is an employment and training program for people who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
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