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Joblessness is Killing People
The New York Sun ^ | April 26, 2016 | BETSY McCAUGHEY

Posted on 04/26/2016 11:37:09 PM PDT by Tyrconnell

Soaring Suicides Emerge As a National Crisis Laid to Economic Stall

Middle aged people laid off and unable to find work are taking another way out. They’re killing themselves. Suicide rates are soaring, according to federal data released last week. ... People in need of work are twice as likely to take their own lives as employed people, and people fired in their forties and fifties find it hardest to get hired again.

That makes boosting economic growth a life- and- death issue.

(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: economy; suicide; unemployment
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To: Tyrconnell

Main thing wrong with these suicides for the insurance
plots is that more times than not they get caught in
fraud. - Simplify. We don’t need nearly all the froo-
froo crap they advertise on TV in order to be content.
TUNE THEM OUT! Eat plain food. Wear your old clothes.
Live in a less fancy house. Drive an old car & upkeep
maintenance on it. Love your family. - The LOVE OF
MONEY is the root of ALL evil. Be what you is! :o)


41 posted on 04/28/2016 4:18:25 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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