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Poverty is correlated with suicide rates, for obvious reasons: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/poverty-may-have-a-greater-effect-on-suicide-rates-than-do-un
by photochemsyn 4y ago
Poverty is correlated with suicide rates, for obvious reasons:
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/poverty-may-have-a-greater-effect-on-suicide-rates-than-do-unemployment-or-foreclosures https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/poverty-may-have-a-greate...
There was a notable increase in poverty rates after the 2008 economic collapse, along with a decrease in home ownership and increased unemployment.
https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-united-states https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-un...
The fact that this article doesn't even mention this obvious contributing factor certainly undermines its thesis.
- anikan_vader 4y agoChild poverty has declined significantly since both 2007 and 2012 (although they did rise momentarily after 2008).
- scythe 4y agoIf poverty were a major contributing factor, it should be immediately obvious in terms of who's affected. The children of the professional-managerial class should be roughly exempt. What we see is in fact the opposite.
- marcusverus 4y agoThe increase in poverty was pretty small (<5% over the recent average), disappeared by 2015 and the poverty rate has been generally trending down ever since. [0] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizations/2022/demo/p60-277/figure1.pdf https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizat...