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Devastating news for all Americans this morning. More workers joined the roles of the government’s disability program in June than found new jobs.

The economy created just 80,000 jobs in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. But that same month, 85,000 workers left the workforce entirely to enroll in the Social Security Disability Insurance program, according to the Social Security Administration.

The disability ranks have outpaced job growth throughout President Obama’s economic recovery. While the economy has created 2.6 million jobs since June 2009, fully 3.1 million workers signed up for disability benefits.

In other words, the number of new disability enrollees has climbed 19% faster than the number of new jobs created during the sluggish recovery.

And the disability ranks will continue to swell. In just the last month, almost 275,000 put in applications for disability benefits. Experts say that more people try to get on disability when jobs are scarce, and changes to eligibility rules enacted back in 1984 have made it far easier to qualify.

Obama promised that his massive stimulus spending would create new jobs. Now, with a few months remaining in his bid to win another term in office, he will have to explain to voters why his plan has failed to create the jobs Americans need. Read the full story from Investor’s Business Daily.

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