Cenk Uygur
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Senator: Disability Benefits Lead To Heroin Abuse
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December 24, 2015
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5:52Now PlayingRepublican Senator Tom Cotton claims that the rise in heroin abuse is due to people’s dependence on disability benefits. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“Communities can fall apart when too many people collect Social Security Disability Insurance, leading to "social plagues" like heroin addiction, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said Monday.
In a speech at the conservative Heritage Foundation, Cotton noted a correlation between a decline in population and an increase in the number of people collecting disability benefits in several Appalachian counties.
"It’s hard to say what came first or caused the other: population decline or increased disability usage -- or maybe economic stagnation caused both," Cotton said. Either way, he said, there seems to be a "disability tipping point," beyond which passively receiving benefits becomes a way of life and enterprise withers.”
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