Posted on 08/15/2015 9:29:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Talking about percentages of donations going to cause, I refuse to give to United Way!!!
“Give direct to local charities you can hold accountable.”
Basically, we give only to the Salvation Army, our church, and food to the local food barrel in our church.
How could they not have ant expenses?
I believe it’s arrived by extrapolating the “22 per day” out from the 2013 statistics.
http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2427
But from what I’ve read it’s possible that the 22 a day number may actually be lower than the actual number.
What all of the stories I’ve read seem to agree on is that the number has spiked alarmingly since 2007.
http://time.com/304/report-suicide-rate-soars-among-young-vets/
“- The number of male veterans under the age of 30 who commit suicide jumped by 44 percent between 2009 and 2011, the most recent year for which data was available, according to numbers released Thursday by the Department of Veterans Affairs. -”
Thanks for the information. Hmmmmmm 2009 onward.....sound like something?
Also - from what I’ve seen and heard there are a large number of veterans over 50 who are committing suicide.
I guess what we have to look at in terms of older veterans (I’m a 66 YO vet) are onset of later life health problems and also severe economic distress like a lot of us have seen in the last 8 years or so.
It would be interesting to see if those over 50 vet losses compare at all with the general population losses.
The VA study found that the percentage of older veterans with a history of VA healthcare who committed suicide actually was higher than that of veterans not associated with VA care. Veterans over the age of 50 who had entered the VA healthcare system made up about 78 percent of the total number of veterans who committed suicide - 9 percentage points higher than the general pool.
Read more at - http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/08/31/older-vets-committing-suicide-at-alarming-rate.html
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