One of the most puzzling trends of the last few decades has been the unrelenting rise in the number of people who fell out of the labor force because they were disabled.
The number of these disabled Americans went up for so long that the trend seemed like it might be permanent.
Today on the show, the story of a quietly dramatic turnaround in the U.S. economy. And what we can learn from it.
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