In this provocative volume, Richard V. Burkhauser and Mary C. Daly argue that the U.S. disability system is failing–growing at an unsustainable pace for taxpayers and delivering relatively poor ...

When American soldiers return home from war with disabilities, they often suffer twice — first from their combat injuries, next from the humiliation of government dependency. Wounded veterans learn ...

After some speculation about a delay in implementation of the final rules on claims adjudication of disability claims under welfare and retirement plans (the Final Rule), the US Department of Labor ...

Imagine for a moment that Congress woke up one morning, realized that the United States was suffering from a paralyzing long-term unemployment crisis, and, in a moment of progressive pique, decided to ...

Drawing shows men making shoes at the Philadelphia Almshouse, circa 1899. Alice Barber Stephens/Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Alfred Bendiner Memorial Collection Nicole Lee ...

It never ceases to amaze me how millions of misinformed Americans think that Social Security disability benefits are some form of welfare. They think Congress tacked on the program to the original ...

Planet Money looks at company called PCG which state governments hire to move people off of welfare and onto disability. States hire PCG to do this because states pay part of the bill for welfare, but ...

AG Blanche Delivers Tax Audit Immunity to Trump, His Former Client Climate Change Apocalypticism Was a Fashion, Not a Cause The Science Has Spoken Against Climate Alarmism Get That SOB, Mr. President ...

The government in Britain recently did something interesting. It asked everyone receiving an “incapacity benefit” — a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms — to submit to a ...