Broken Disability System
Perhaps Stanley Thornton will be the giant straw that causes a policy breakthrough in our failing disability system. Thornton is a 350 pound “adult baby” who receives disability benefits. Earlier this week it was decided that he was not fraudulently on the Social Security rolls.
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