EXPOSÉ | " Charity Begins at Home "| PBS

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Tags: Exposé  America's  Investigative  Reports  PBS  Journalism  Oregonian  Disabilities  Non-profit  Charity   Description: View the entire show at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/watch/index.html Could a well-intentioned government program become a cash machine for businessmen bent on enriching themselves at the expense of the disabled? In 1971, Congress created a program to channel federal contracts to charities that train and employ workers who are blind or have severe disabilities. Known as JWOD (named after the law that created it, the Javits-Wagner-O'Day act), it eventually came to have a $2 billion dollar budget. But no one, it appears, was keeping track of where that money was going, until journalists from The Oregonian decided to have a look. What they found was abuse of the system and anemic oversight resulting in a massive bilking of taxpayers and precious few jobs for the genuinely disabled. And watch the full episode when it premieres online, Wednesday, August 15, at 12 noon ET. (Or check your local listings for broadcast dates on PBS nationwide, beginning Friday, August 17.) For web-exclusive video and audio features, and to stream other episodes in the series, go to http://www.pbs.org/expose
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LUK0BA ::: Favorites  2007-08-14 14:13:06 OMG thank you once again PBS. __________________________________________________
hoomelemele ::: Favorites  2007-08-14 13:35:38 You guys, come on, this belongs under the no-shit section. The poverty and misery business is a big time money maker, dah. __________________________________________________

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