How social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market Passing down nearly a million decisions each year more judges handle disability cases for the Social Security Administration than federal civil and criminal cases combined. In Social Security Disability Law and the American Labor Market Jon C. Dubin challenges the contemporary policies for determining disability benefits and work assessment. He posits the fundamental questions where are the jobs for persons with significant medical and vocational challenges And how does the administration misfire in its standards and processes for answering that question Deploying his profound understanding of the Social Security Administration and Disability law and policy he demystifies the system showing us its complex inner mechanisms and flaws its history and evolution and how changes in the labor market have rendered some agency processes obsolete. Dubin lays out how those who advocate eviscerating program coverage and needed life support benefits in the guise of modernizing these procedures would reduce the capacity for the Social Security Administration to function properly and serve its intended beneficiaries and argues that the disability system should instead be mended not ended.Dubin argues that while it may seem counterintuitive the transformation from an industrial economy to a twentyfirstcentury service economy in the information age with increased automation and resulting diminished demand for arduous physical labor has not meaningfully reduced the relevance of or need for the disability benefits programs. Indeed they have created new and different obstacles to work adjustments based on the need for other skills and capacities in the new economyespecially for the significant portion of persons with cognitive psychiatric neuropsychological or other mental impairments. Therefore while the disability program is in dire need of empirically supported updating and measures to rem