The Disability Belt
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 8 March 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:21.3 | You've probably heard of the rust belt and the Bible belt and there's a bunch of other ones across the country |
| 0:31.4 | There's the corn belt cotton belt frost belt lead belt rice belt salt belt snow belt sun belt |
| 0:37.6 | But there's one belt you probably will not see on any list the disability belt |
| 0:43.9 | Dill Matthews writes about belts for Vox if you map the United States and see where people |
| 0:50.3 | Have stopped working because they can't go on and and are on this program |
| 0:54.9 | It's very concentrated in certain areas. It's concentrated in Appalachia. It's concentrated in the deep South |
| 1:01.7 | The disability belt is largely made up of Trump voters |
| 1:06.1 | Actually nine out of the ten counties with the most adults on disability voted for Donald Trump and they really |
| 1:13.4 | Voted for him Trump won each of those nine counties with over 70% of the vote |
| 1:19.7 | But President Trump's new budget calls for 72 billion dollars in cuts to disability over the next 10 years |
| 1:27.7 | And it feels like he's forgetting a fundamental part of his campaign. They're forgotten men and women of our country |
| 1:35.4 | Will be forgotten no longer |
| 1:39.3 | So why would President Trump cut benefits to his own base? I'm Sean Ramos firm. This is today explained |
| 1:50.1 | Dillon what exactly is disability? Let's start with that technically the name is SSDI |
| 1:58.2 | So SSDI stands for Social Security Disability Insurance |
| 2:02.4 | And so right off the bat the thing to say about it is that it's part of Social Security |
| 2:06.7 | We think of Social Security as the checks you get when you're retired from the government |
| 2:11.1 | And as part of that system you can get money if you get too disabled to work |
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