This has been made all the worse by a collapse of renewable energy momentum amid steep reductions or outright cancellations of government support programs.

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Government programs that support them will fail.

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The Department of Health and Human Services reports that more than 12.4 million working-age Americans obtained disability income support from all government programs in 2011.

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