U.S. Deals Aiding Blind Draw Scrutiny as Rivals Struggle

Angela Meredith, who is legally blind, says she owes her job to a U.S. government program that reserves contracts for disabled workers.

“I wouldn’t be able to find work anywhere else,” said Meredith, 58, who earns $7.75 an hour making army uniforms at a factory near Baltimore, under a much-praised initiative started in 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.