25% of Hale County Working Adults are on Disability

Alabama\s Black Belt is mostly in the 7th District.

     NPR's Planet Money team focuses on Hale County, in Alabama's poor Black Belt region.
They report 1 in 4 working age adults in the county is on disability.
     With the miserable health stats there, I'm surprised they are surprised.

     Hale, and the other counties that make up the region named for the rich black soil, are the poorest counties in a poor state.

     But the report also says fraud contributes to the high rate of people receiving disability checks each month. Banks stay open late on check day.