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Disability Beneficiaries Hit New Record: 10,996,447
2014 May 20, 3:53am 12,465 views 39 comments
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2014 May 27, 9:58am
people like you argue for America to adopt a global standard to our funding of anti-poverty programs....
Ugh - if you actually paid attention to HeritageFoundationCare (which includes everyone) and how many of those poor kids you pretend to feel sorry for are hooked on toxic pills that cause lifetime side effects by the teenage years, you might reconsider whom you think you're arguing for and against. In Mexico for example, healthcare for poor children is often better than here; Mexican kids get more vaccines and fewer pills, and at lower cost. And here's a hint: instead of re-framing other people's arguments in a false frame of your own invention, you might consider limiting your presentation of their views to what they actually said. It might lack the creativity of your false framing approach, and of course strawmen of your own fabrication are usually easier to argue against, but integrity does come at a price.
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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/10996447-disability-beneficiaries-hit-new-record
(CNSNews.com) - The total number of disability beneficiaries in the United States rose from 10,981,423 in March to 10,996,447 in April, setting a new all-time record, according to newly released data from the Social Security Administration.
The number of Americans receiving disability benefits continues to exceed the populations of Greece, Tunisia and Portugal, and is approaching the population of Cuba, which according to the CIA World Factbook is 11,047,251.
The 10,996,447 total disability beneficiaries includes 8,942,232 disabled workers, 153,475 spouses of disabled workers, and 1,900,740 children of disabled workers.
None of those individual categories of beneficiaries set a record in April, but the combination of all three was the highest it has ever been in the history of the disability program.
The number of disabled workers peaked at 8,942,584 in December—with 352 more workers receiving disability than in April.