The TAL report was very well done - it highlighted the problem of children on SSDI - if they get better the family loses a major source of income. Although TAL, and 60 minutes, tend to focus on the sleazy lawyers getting rich rather than the freeloaders.
I am surprised that no one has connected the dots on a number of these issues - record low participation in the workforce keeping unemployment percentages down, record high numbers of SSDI participants, one party looking to reform the entitlements. With 9M people of voting age on SSDI and the last presidential election being decided by ~5M votes, how many votes is a candidate that threatens these benefits going to get?
I am surprised that no one has connected the dots on a number of these issues - record low participation in the workforce keeping unemployment percentages down, record high numbers of SSDI participants, one party looking to reform the entitlements. With 9M people of voting age on SSDI and the last presidential election being decided by ~5M votes, how many votes is a candidate that threatens these benefits going to get?