{"id":31,"date":"2014-11-02T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-11T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T00:38:12","slug":"trends-with-benefits-this-american-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Trends With Benefits | This American Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>An amazingly helpful look into what our disability program has become. Done with the usual attention to humanity and detail as we have come to expect from This American Life.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>490: Trends With Benefits<\/h3>\n<p>Mar 22, 2013<\/p>\n<p>The number of Americans receiving federal disability payments has nearly doubled over the last 15 years. There are towns and counties around the nation where almost 1\/4 of adults are on disability. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/\"><em>Planet Money<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s Chana Joffe-Walt spent 6 months exploring the disability program, and emerges with a story of the U.S. economy quite different than the one we&#8217;ve been hearing<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/490\/trends-with-benefits\">Trends With Benefits | This American Life<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amazingly helpful look into what our disability program has become. Done with the usual attention to humanity and detail as we have come to expect from This American Life. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=31\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trends With Benefits | This American Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}