The Labor Bureau's 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' saw a nearly 1.14 million increase between the end of the recession in 2008 and the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. This amounting to an average increase in the disabled population of less than 94 thousand a year.

For the period from April 2020 to date, that figure has climbed nearly 1.24 million, for an average increase in the disabled population of over 200 thousand a year, with no sign of slowing. Disability has climbed faster in the past half dozen years than it had in the previous dozen.

Another way to say all of this is that disability has been increasing at twice the pre-pandemic rate for six years straight, and continues to do so as we enter the pandemic's seventh year.

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