April 2, 2017







Disabled America
Disabled or just desperate? Rural Americans turn to disability as jobs dry up.
Across large swaths of the country, disability has reshaped scores of mostly white, almost exclusively rural communities, where as many as one-third of working-age adults live on monthly disability checks, according to a Post analysis. The increases have been worse in working-class areas, worse still in communities where residents are older, and worst of all in places with shrinking populations and few immigrants.
By Terrence McCoy  •  Read more »