Waves of pain across Michigan’s ‘Disability Belt’

Across northern Michigan, a greater percentage of working-age adults are getting long-term disability than anywhere outside the rural South. In a region beset with economic and health woes, tens of thousands of workers have qualified for checks at a rate unrivaled north of Kentucky. SEE FULL STORY.

Source: U.S. Census, Social Security Administration and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Interactive map: See how many are on disability in YOUR community

by Mike Wilkinson, Bridge Michigan
April 11, 2017

<h1>Interactive map: See how many are on disability in YOUR community</h1> <p class="byline">by Mike Wilkinson, Bridge Michigan <br />April 11, 2017</p> <br /> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Waves of pain across Michigan’s ‘Disability Belt’</h2> <p>Across northern Michigan, a greater percentage of working-age adults are getting long-term disability than anywhere outside the rural South. In a region beset with economic and health woes, tens of thousands of workers have qualified for checks at a rate unrivaled north of Kentucky. <a href="http://www.bridgemi.com/children-families/northern-michigans-disability-belt-now-rivals-deep-south-and-appalachia">SEE FULL STORY.</a></p> </p> <p>Source: U.S. Census, Social Security Administration and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.</p> <div class="dr-paragraph full-width-text dr-paragraph--full-width-text"> </div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://bridgemi.com/children-families/interactive-map-see-how-many-are-disability-your-community/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://bridgemi.com&quot;&gt;Bridge Michigan&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/bridgemi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/cropped-android-chrome-192x192-1.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://bridgemi.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=9725&amp;amp;ga4=G-1E2G9MSHX5&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://bridgemi.com/children-families/interactive-map-see-how-many-are-disability-your-community/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bridgemi.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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