Unfit for Work...

NPR has an article posted digging into the phenomenon of skyrocketing employment disability rates in the U.S.  There are lots of interesting nuggets in the article, like the infographic below showing how the kinds of disabilities being claimed have changed over 50 years.  Read the facts, and come to your own conclusions about the causes.  Remember that the source is NPR: sources are likely filtered, and opinions carefully vetted to fit the progressive world view.  I'll offer one additional caution: most of the things being measured are not well-isolated metrics.  For example, the infographic below is almost certainly colored by the progress of medicine in that same period - so, for instance, the lower rate of claims for respiratory diseases is probably caused (at least partly) by advances in respiratory medicine, and not at all by behavioral changes...