Well there is zero doubt that suicide rates are correlated with poverty rates! That isn’t quite the question though, is it? If poverty rates explained the rece

Well there is zero doubt that suicide rates are correlated with poverty rates! That isn’t quite the question though, is it? If poverty rates explained the recent life expectancy drop and concomitant suicide rate and overdose spike, we are wasting a lot of time in this comment section. Except the poverty rate is falling. [1] Maybe the theory is that even though the economy has been getting better for almost a full decade, and the poverty rate has been falling, there is a segment of the population that is still in poverty or even coming out of poverty and yet still feeling more dreadfully helpless than past people in similar financial status. [1] - https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2018/demo/p60-263.html https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2018/demo/p60-26...