America's True Unemployment Rate

Re:America's True Unemployment Rate by amznthrwaway on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:10PM (#24843954)

That number doesn't match what the SSA publishes in their annual reports.[1]. They put the figure on disability at 8.9 million disabled workers, with 11.2 million total beneficiaries once you include the disabled workers' children.)

That said, the real figures are still startling. They represents 4.4% of the US worker population but some states rely incredibly heavily on the program.

  Alabama - 8.0% of the population
  Arkansas - 7.9% of the population
  Kentucky - 7.6% of the population
  Maine - 7.4% of the population
  Mississippi - 7.5% of the population
  West Virginia - 8.6% of the population

1: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/di_asr/2019/di_asr...

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Re:America's True Unemployment Rate by Forbo on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:57PM (#24844157)

No idea why this was downvoted into oblivion, so I vouched for it. It seems to state factual information and cites direct sources. The information presented is located on page 29. Maybe instead of just drive-by downvoting, you can state some reasoning for doing so.

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Re:America's True Unemployment Rate by Noumenon72 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:58PM (#24844159)

For a second I thought I'd lost my ability to vouch, then I reloaded and found you had already done so. Thanks for recognizing good posts!

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