{"id":33952,"date":"2012-08-09T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/demographic_time_bomb_in_pictures_and_dollar_amounts_ratio_of_s-_sec-_benef\/"},"modified":"2012-08-09T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T14:40:12","slug":"demographic_time_bomb_in_pictures_and_dollar_amounts_ratio_of_s-_sec-_benef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33952","title":{"rendered":"Demographic Time Bomb in Pictures and Dollar Amounts; Ratio of S. Sec. Benef. to Workers Exceeds 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Stats[:]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As of 2012-06 the civilian labor force was 155,163,000<br \/>\nAs of 2012-06 there were 111,145,000 in the private workforce<br \/>\nAs of 2012-06 there were 56,174,538 collecting some form of SS or disability benefit<br \/>\nRatio of SS beneficiaries to private employment just passed the 50% mark (50.54%)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;.As of May 2012, the outlays are $756.9 billion annualized. Fewer worker relatively speaking, support more and more recipients with exponentially growing payments. This is supposed to work?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/ratio-of-social-security-beneficiaries.html\">Read it all from Mish&#8217;s economics blog<\/a> (another from the long queue of should-have-already-been-posted material).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Stats[:] As of 2012-06 the civilian labor force was 155,163,000 As of 2012-06 there were 111,145,000 in the private workforce As of 2012-06 there were 56,174,538 collecting some form of SS or disability benefit Ratio of SS beneficiaries to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33952\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,103,209,670,674,595,149,617,597,675,136,616,151,129,618,673,587,669,584,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-americau-s-a","category-budget","category-censuscensus-data","category-credit-markets","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-medicare","category-middle-age","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-senate","category-social-security","category-taxes","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}