{"id":4999,"date":"2011-11-01T12:54:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T16:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2011-11-02T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T15:30:08","slug":"in-hamilton-county-1-in-3-people-draw-social-security-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/11\/01\/in-hamilton-county-1-in-3-people-draw-social-security-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"In Hamilton County, 1 in 3 people draw Social Security checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The on-line rural news magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyyonder.com\/rural-more-dependent-social-security\/2011\/10\/29\/3578\">Daily Yonder has been exploring<\/a> the heavy dependency of small towns on the Social Security income.<\/p>\n<p>In rural communities, the Federal program accounts for more than 9% of all income &#8212; that&#8217;s nearly twice as high as city people, where populations tend to be far younger.<\/p>\n<p>The contrast is sharply visible here in the North Country, where in Hamilton County roughly 1500 people draw Social Security checks every month.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s nearly one out of every three people in the community.<\/p>\n<p>In the borough of Queens, by comparison, only about 12% of residents draw Social Security &#8212; more like one person out of eight.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers reflect the North Country&#8217;s aging population.\u00a0 And it also illustrates how vulnerable this region could be to major changes to the program.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just Hamilton, though Hamilton is an extreme case.\u00a0 In Clinton and St. Lawrence Counties, one in five people draw Social Security checks.\u00a0 In Essex County, nearly one in four.<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t just be individual families that experience change, if  entitlements are curtailed:\u00a0 whole communities could see their economies  impacted.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Daily Yonder&#8217;s article and chime in.\u00a0 Should Social Security be trimmed?\u00a0 If so, what would that do to North Country towns where those checks provide a lot of the total cash economy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The on-line rural news magazine Daily Yonder has been exploring the heavy dependency of small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5000,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions\/5000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}