Number of Americans Paid Not to Work Growing Faster than Number of Taxpayers

Number of Americans Paid Not to Work Growing Faster than Number of Taxpayers
The workforce participation rate is now at its lowest rate in 30 years, with 63.6 percent of adults who could work actually working....

Since the formal end of the recession in June 2009, the number of new people entering the Disability Insurance Program--4.7 million--is double the growth in non-farm payrolls--2.3 million.

In 1975, 1.33 percent of working age adults received Disability Insurance payments from the U.S. Today, the rate of officially disabled Americans of working age has soared to 7.1 percent.