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March 31, 2017

Health

Disabled, or Just Desperate?

Between 1996 and 2015, the number of working-age adults receiving federal disability payments increased dramatically — but nowhere more so than in rural America. This is one man’s story.

Terrence McCoy Washington Post Mar 2017 Permalink