IBD: Labor Force Shrinks As Jobless Swell Disability Ranks

More and more Americans dependent on the federal government, which is approaching $16 trillion in debt.

[news.investors.com]

Several sentences from the column:

In fact, had the labor force participation rate had stayed where it was in June 2009, the unemployment rate would be around 11%.

As IBD reported recently, more than 5 million workers and their families have enrolled in the disability program since Obama took office.

A report last fall from the Obama administration's economic advisers warns that the mass exodus of workers who can't find a job onto the disability rolls poses a long-term risk to the economy, since once enrolled, these workers almost never return to the active workforce.

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