Posted on 05/01/2016 3:20:26 PM PDT by Tours
Suicide rates in the United States have soared to a 30-year high, with the most striking surge among middle-aged women and white people, according to federal data released Friday.
“Of the top 10 causes of death — including cancer, strokes, heart disease — everything else went down but suicide went up,” he said. “It’s particularly striking among women, because they have traditionally had much lower suicide rates.”
For women between the ages of 45 and 64, the suicide rate jumped 63 percent in the 15-year period. It rose 43 percent for men in the same age group, according to the data.
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Another successful Obama program.
Same thing happened in the Weimar Republic.
Dear Leader smiles and says “all according to plan”.
And I bet you thought “fundamental transformation” meant something goooooood.
Female suicides up.
You wanted into a mans world, feminists.
Welcome to the party, sister.
CC
The destruction of the family bears its’ poisonous fruit.
You’re 45-60 years old. Laid off. Mortgage to pay, kids in college, food and other cost soaring. Manufacturing jobs shipped to China and Mehico. Construction and service jobs (at minimumu wage)? Good luck with that having to complete with Hordes of illegals.
That’s what we’re living in.
I suspect an abuse of prescription drugs has something to do with this.
All of Bonzo’s bullying accusations about “white guilt” and “white privilege” must be getting to them. Although I’m past “middle-aged’, I don’t let the boy get to me.
America, only place in the world where white people’s health as measured in mortality rates is worsening. Thanks, leftists.
Could be the result of the husband getting laid off or sick.
Bankruptcy due to health costs is epidemic.
“Be careful what you wish for” comes to mind for some reason.
Three people at different locations this week on metro north in Connecticut. Not sure they were suicides but they sure weren’t kids playing on the tracks.
Look across America. Town after town devastated by our economy. Once thriving industrial towns are now shuttered wastelands. Steel mills and mines - gone. Illegals taking all of the service jobs. Working class whites thrown to the curbside.
more likely no husband
most single women can not make it
I think at least some of it is the stress encountered by women in the workforce in much bigger numbers. Heart disease among middle aged women has skyrocketed as well.
CC
I am one of the lucky ones.
I was able to simply retreat to the back yard and grow mangoes and papayas.
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