50 Million Americans Have Disabilities, Require Assistance
Posted on:7/14/2009
Written By: Chris Robideaux
| 50 million Americans or more have disabilities of some degree or another, and require some form of assistance. That number will only increase, as the available funds within social safety nets designed to care for disabled people declines, and large swaths of the populations either retire or claim some type of disability. |
50 million Americans or more have disabilities of some degree or another, and require some form of assistance. That number will only increase, as the available funds within social safety nets designed to care for disabled people declines, and large swaths of the populations either retire or claim one of the many increasing disorders or disabilities plaguing our nation. The United States Census Bureau reported on August 6, 2007 that during the year 2002, around 18 percent of the American people claim of having a disability. On the other hand, about 12 percent have severe or serious disability.
Something must be done about this pernicious dilemma, and soon, if we are to retain any semblance of being a nation with any kind of respectable standard of living or quality of life.