Bipartisan bill to widen federal help for disabled

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15. I never said "all the disabled are poor"

In the United States, 72 percent of women with disabilities live below the poverty line. In the United States, 14.3 of a projected 48.9 million people with disabilities were employed, with two-thirds of those unemployed reporting that they were unable to find work. I said "most" and the statistics bear that out. Disabled people are more likely to be employed by charity organizations that sometimes pay pennies per hour, hardly enough to be sustaining jobs. Some disabled people are lucky enough to remain in the care of parents with good paying jobs. As those parents die, a great many of the disabled end up in poverty. I said "a great many" not "all". I never said "all", but the people who will be helped by this legislation is a vanishingly small percentage, and the likelihood that it will be abused by the affluent is high.