Who’s Able-Bodied Anyway?’ by Emily Badger and Margot Sanger-Katz

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The article, Who’s Able-Bodied Anyway?’ by Emily Badger and Margot Sanger-Katz demystifies who the able-bodied are as far as government programs aimed at helping the poor are concerned. The article explicates that the so-called able-bodied have taken advantage of the various government aid programs at the expense of the disabled essentially because they have assumed various definitions that they are far from being true. According to the article, the able-bodied are neither disabled, children, elderly nor are they pregnant CITATION Emi18 \l 1033 (Badger & Sanger-Katz, 2018). They are everything the name able-bodied suggest, which is healthy, fit, and strong enough to work and help themselves other than taking advantage of the many government aid programs at the expense of those who are really in need- those that cannot work due to physical or mental disability. Contrary to the legislation that established the Elizabethan English poor law 400 years ago, contemporary government aid laws and particularly Med...