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Hope'n'Change: More People Went on Disability than Found Jobs in June

Bear Trax Wrote: Jul 07, 2012 11:09 AM
Obama came into office as the least wealthy of all who held the office before him, in the terms of when they were elected. Now Obama has a net worth of tens of millions. How did that happen???

It would have been easy for President Obama to miss the finer points of yesterday's jobs report, given that he only spent 26 seconds speaking about it in Ohio. But do these numbers look like "a step in the right direction" to you?

The economy created just 80,000 jobs in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. But that same month, 85,000 workers left the workforce entirely to enroll in the Social Security Disability Insurance program, according to the Social Security Administration.

The disability ranks have outpaced job growth throughout President Obama's recovery. While the economy...

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