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| One hopes Trump won't be bragging about these numbers |
A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control shows that suicide is #10 on the leading causes of death in the United States, and is #4 for adults aged 18-65.
While the study makes clear that many factors--and especially family history, depression, and substance abuse--play a role in suicide, and that there is no one reason for it, it also makes clear that job stress and one's socioeconomic status are definitely having an affect on the increasing numbers of Americans committing suicide.
It also gives one reason to pause, as Donald Trump promised his followers that if they put him in the White House those good paying manufacturing and coal jobs that have been disappearing for decades would magically reappear...and they have not. In fact, 70% of Americans claim that their economic situation has either stayed the same (50%), or worsened (20%), since Trump became President.
Apparently giving big tax cuts to yourself and your family, as well as your wealthy benefactors and corporations, doesn't have quite the upside for those who live on the economic margins and who didn't inherit millions--and more than a little chutzpah--from their fathers.
Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee
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