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Out-of-work Hoosiers: 260,000

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pearl
Monday, February 7, 2011: 2:27 pm
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Is this supposed to be a feeble attempt at an apology for last week's article, "Recovery Persistently Denied?" The numbers are irrelevant when delivery is callous and patronizing.

nobodyimportant
Monday, February 7, 2011: 5:19 pm
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There is an untold story related to the issue of job losses. It has to do with the rising numbers Social Security Disability recipients. Since 1990, the percentage of all social security benefits that goes to SSI recipients has nealy doubled.

Many people are finding it easier to get on disability than work. Since jobs are scarce, it makes it even more attractive. This is not to say that many SSI recipients dor not have genuine disabilities that keep them out of the workplace, but it does seem that it has become a lot easier to get qualified lately.

pearl
Monday, February 7, 2011: 5:58 pm
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Very interesting point "important." I wonder what the unemployment rates would be if disability recipients who were interested in returning to work-even at PT-were factored in.

Sunny
Monday, February 7, 2011: 8:59 pm
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Nobodyimportant said:

Many people are finding it easier to get on disability than work. Since jobs are scarce, it makes it even more attractive. This is not to say that many SSI recipients do not have genuine disabilities that keep them out of the workplace, but it does seem that it has become a lot easier to get qualified lately.

I concur. In my recent activities in life I have witnessed this very thing. There was an acquaintance of mine that was a Vietnam War veteran. I watched this man struggle through his latter years in life with complications finally brought on from his years of service overseas. It was as painful as getting teeth pulled for him to get the benefits that he deservedly needed. My other observations on this matter have witnessed the exact opposite! No disabilities, no restrictions, yet were able to receive the benefit; along with making a substantial living out of Uncle Sam's sight.

Unemployment? American leadership over the recent years has sold our national pride. I discovered an American flag with a tag attached that stated "Made in China".... I wish our economists would advise our senior level politicians that it is not possible to serve the interests of the U.N.(Globalization) and the interests of the American people at the same time.

Goodbye middle class... I fear that we are unknowingly embracing a world of "have and have nots."

nobodyimportant
Monday, February 7, 2011: 11:59 pm
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Sunny, you hit a nerve. Our greed has gotten us into this mess....high unemployment, loss of jobs. Our elite industrialists and manufacturers sold out the American worker and took the jobs overseas to countries with horrible human rights records and the very nations that we fear becoming too strong. When you can pay workers for a days work for less than 2 hours of minimum wages here, put your wares in boats and ship them back to undersell American made products, it smacks of treasoness greed.

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