Our disability program is structured in a way that makes it very difficult to ever rejoin the labor force. It's supposed to disincentivize going on disability support, but it's created a huge population of people who basically aren't allowed to work.

Both take out hundreds of thousands by recognizing them as ''disabled''

TomK

Some of the American metrics focus on working age, too, but I think that goes to 65.

Undisciplined

Economic ''Surprise'': German Unemployment Soars Past Predictions

Oh yes. It's worse. For example: people over 58 do not appear in the statistics. 