The NFB works to insure that training in the techniques necessary to function efficiently without sight is available. Some kind of training is available in every state, but often it leads only to sitting at home or making brooms in a sheltered workshop for less than $1.00 an hour. Blind people today work as lawyers, psychologists, machinists, farmers, hairdressers; but the best estimates indicate that 70 percent of those who are able to work still do not have jobs or work only a few days a month in sheltered workshops. Many thoroughly capable blind persons have never had a job. To respond to this critically high unemployment rate, the national Federation of the Blind, in cooperation with the United States Department of Labor, developed a program of Job Opportunities for the Blind. JOB helps qualified blind people who are looking for work find employers with job openings. JOB also helps employers who have affirmative action requirements for hiring the handicapped find truly qualified employees, not just token blind people to meet a mandated government order. JOB conducts educational seminars about blindness for employers, and career planning seminars for unemployed blind people.