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>> npr ran an investigation put together by shauna jackie wa walsh, spent the past six months looking into the government disability programs. the in the past three decades the number of americans on disability has skyrocketed, every month 14 million people now get a disability check from the federal government. it's the story not only of an aging work force, but also the hidden, increasingly expensive safety net. she also notes that the federal government spends more each year on cash payments for supposedly disabled former workers than it spends on food stamps and welfare combined. cal, as y...

>> npr ran an investigation put together by shauna jackie wa walsh, spent the past six months looking into the government disability programs. the in the past three decades the number of americans on disability has skyrocketed, every month 14 million people now get a disability check from the federal government. it's the story not only of an aging work force, but also the hidden, increasingly expensive safety net. she also notes that the federal government spends more each year on cash payments for supposedly disabled former workers than it spends on food stamps and welfare combined. cal, as y...

Are going to make any discussion of this issue politically incorrect. we're going to be accused of being anti-immigrant, anti-poor, racist, anti-elderly. if we get into the details of this, and we better be prepared for that. now, having said that, there's a growth of 20 million americans on food stamps. it's possible for two reasons, one, an absolute failure of the obama administration in doing anything to fix this economy. or perhaps, two, they have encouraged people to come on that in the past were not considered eligible or didn't feel they needed to use their eligibility. either one of th...

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