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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

8,753,935: Workers on Disability Set Another Record in July; Exceed Population of 39 States

The number of workers taking federal disability insurance payments hit yet another record in July, increasing to 8,753,935 during the month from the previous record of 8,733,461 set in June, according to newly released data from the Social Security Administration.


The 8,753,935 workers who took federal disability insurance payments in July exceeded the population of 39 of the 50 states. Only 11 states—California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina and New Jersey—had more people in them than the number of workers on the federal disability insurance rolls in July.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wish someone would do a chart showing all the people on disability, welfare etc vs the people that are actually working.

Anonymous said...

When you take out all the children under 18, the retirees, the people in prison, the ones on disability, the politicians, the government employees and the ones on unemployment it leaves about 35,000 people left to do the work.

Anonymous said...

9:35-I don't know if I really want to see that.It might scare the heck out of me.