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Also should consider the number of people who are going on permanent disability: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/03/22/175076784/episode-446-the-invisib
by kqr2 9y ago
Also should consider the number of people who are going on permanent disability:
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/03/22/175076784/episode-446-the-invisible-14-million http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/03/22/175076784/episo...
The number of Americans receiving federal disability
payments has nearly doubled over the last 15 years.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/490/trends-with-benefits https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/490/...
- 1024core 9y agoThis is the hidden secret of "unemployment". A lot of people have just given up looking for employment, and are on SSDI or some other such program. The number of Americans on SSDI went from about 4M to 9M between 1998 and 2014: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/dibGraphs.html#3 https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/dibGraphs.html#3