Charities are often corporations. Corporation doesn't mean for-profit, and it doesn't mean publicly traded. At its core it just means "an organization that is legally treated as a unit". Goodwill is not publicly traded (since, as a non-profit, that wouldn't make much sense).
Re:Goodwill doesn't want broken toasters
by dragonwriter on Friday May 07, 2021 @09:32PM
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> I always assumed it was a charity so surprised to find out it’s a corporation
It is a charity. Most charities are corporations (pretty much anything with an identity that isn’t a government of a facade for an individual is a corporation, LLC, or partnership of some kind, and charities can’t be partnerships or individuals, and I’m not sure about LLCs but even if they can be there probably is no reason to.
Paying some of its disabled employees less than minimum wage is an out of context character attack as well. These are government programs to employ the otherwise unemployable. Most employers refuse to take part in the program. Large low skill employers like famously McDonalds and Walmart but clearly also here Goodwill take part and give these people jobs paying them the government funds. We shouldn’t be throwing shade at companies like Goodwill for giving people with Down’s syndrome employment but instead be throwing shade at companies like Goldman Sachs for not doing it.