PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- U.S. Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was in Rhode Island last weekend on a fundraising trip.
During a radio interview Aug. 1 on WHJJ's "The Helen Glover Show," Glover turned the conversation toward a topic West has talked about often in recent months: the correlation between the number of people exhausting their unemployment benefits and new recipients of Social Security Disability benefits.
"It's unconscionable to think that in the month of June, the federal government [reported] 80,000 new jobs created but the little fact that no one is talking about is that we have 85,000 people go on Social Security Disability the same month."
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