re: #114 Decatur Deb

Most Americans aren’t rural. We don’t need another wedge issue.

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They’re not, but rural Americans are disproportionately using disability.

Q: Are disability beneficiaries spread evenly nationwide?

A: The majority of disability recipients live in densely populated urban and suburban areas, but they are disproportionately prevalent in rural America — where, on average, 9.1 percent of the working-age population receives disability, compared to the national average of 6.5 percent and an urban rate of 4.9 percent. Beneficiaries are even more overrepresented in the Southeast and central Appalachia. These are places economists have called “disability belts.”