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We should plug the safety net’s biggest hole
Over the past half-century, the U.S. safety net has grown considerably stronger for children and elderly adults, substantially reducing poverty among them. But the story is starkly different for another group of Americans that we hear far less about: non-elderly adults, aged 18-64, who aren’t raising children and don’t have a severe enough, or long-lasting enough, disability to meet the stringent criteria for federal disability benefits. This is no small group. In 2017, the last year for which we have data comparable to those for earlier years, they numbered 106 million people — or nearly one-third of the nation’s non-institutionalized population. Though their poverty rate is similar t

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