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Re:The Rise of the Non-Working Class by medvezhenok on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:39PM (#33710268)
It's unclear though. Is the data set consistent in its reporting of data since 1960? In that case, the question becomes - why are so many more people on disability now (if that is the bulk of the difference) than there were in 1960?

In fact you might expect there to be more people on disability in 1960, seeing as WWII ended only 15 years before that (PTSD, etc). I suppose that those people simply couldn't get onto disability back then though.

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Re:The Rise of the Non-Working Class by soco on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:57PM (#33712737)
Definitions of disability changed a lot over these decades.
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Re:The Rise of the Non-Working Class by zoolily on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @06:36PM (#33713099)
You might expect more. The US has had several more recent wars. Medical technology keeps a lot of people alive that would have died in the WWII era, leading to higher percentages of disabled civilians and soldiers.
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