Posted on 01/06/2018 4:28:14 AM PST by smileyface
...But there is one detail in the jobs report that suggests there is still room for improvement. The labor force participation rate, which is a measure of how many people are employed or actively seeking work compared to the whole population (not just those looking for work), is 62.7 percent. According to the report, this is “unchanged over the month and over the year.” In total numbers, there are 96,230,000 Americans who are not in the labor force, which is an increase of 456,000 since President Obama’s last year in office. ...
The Trump administration is likewise set to release guidelines for requiring Medicaid recipients to work, permitting state governments to add work requirements to their Medicaid programs for the first time...
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SS disability is seperate ,....I know that, you just lumped it all together in your post without delineating SS from SSDI. SS is an entitlement (we pay for it). SSDI is welfare.
By the way, SSDI increased almost exponentially during the Democrats rule when we had 96 months of Unemployment Compensation checks and nobody had jobs open. I KNOW Gov. Rendell in PA told L%I to throw them on SSDI. Once on, they never got off.
With regular SS people collect way more than they put in most cases .
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