US suicide rates increased more than 25% since 1999

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Just now, Truno2018 said:

If you mean North America as a continent I wasn’t referring to that.

 

From what I’ve constantly read and heard poverty has increased in the USA.

 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/200463/us-poverty-rate-since-1990/#0

 

In 1999 it was 11.9%, in 2010 it went up to 15.1%, in 2016 it went down to 12.7%.

 

Poverty is certainly up compared to 1999 in 2016 but maybe there’s some 2017/2018 data somewhere. 

I think we need to get a better idea of who is killing themselves. Is it poor people? Correlation doesn't imply causation. 

[Ike★ 2,908]

28 minutes ago, Cookester15 said:

poverty has decreased exponentially in north America the past 30 years, suicide rates should follow suit, no? 

Income inequality has never been greater though due to no real salary growth in 40 years.

 

"Recasting the 2012 income using the 1979 income distribution, the bottom 99% of families would have averaged about $7,100 more income"

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/business/rethinking-the-income-gap-and-a-college-education.html

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11 minutes ago, Ike said:

Income inequality has never been greater though due to no real salary growth in 40 years.

 

"Recasting the 2012 income using the 1979 income distribution, the bottom 99% of families would have averaged about $7,100 more income"

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/business/rethinking-the-income-gap-and-a-college-education.html

Say this for Washington with a straight face.

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Just now, DynamiteCop! said:

Say this for Washington with a straight face.

Washington has it's own problems. Median house price in King County is over $1 million. So yes it's still a problem in this state. The $15/hr minimum wage is a good start but the ever rising rents are offsetting that gain and that wage is only in Seattle proper.

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2 minutes ago, Ike said:

Washington has it's own problems. Median house price in King County is over $1 million. So yes it's still a problem in this state. The $15/hr minimum wage is a good start but the ever rising rents are offsetting that gain and that wage is only in Seattle proper.

It's actually closer to $650,000, and King County is not a good representation of the state as a whole or even immediate areas. If you go to Pierce County which directly butts up to it the median house price is $300,000 lower. Everyone in the state now has a mandatory 5 days of paid sick leave, Prevailing Wage just doubled which puts the average wage around $50 an hour. Things are pretty good around here.

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4 minutes ago, DynamiteCop! said:

It's actually closer to $650,000, and King County is not a good representation of the state as a whole or even immediate areas. If you go to Pierce County which directly butts up to it the median house price is $300,000 lower. Everyone in the state now has a mandatory 5 days of paid sick leave, Prevailing Wage just doubled which puts the average wage around $50 an hour. Things are pretty good around here.

I do agree that things are pretty great in this state. It's a fantastic place to live.

Edited September 24, 2018 by Ike

[Ike★ 2,908]

I should say it's great except for goddamn traffic.

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I'm a Russian. Explain to me exactly why racial $$$ distrobution needs to be equal.

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1 hour ago, Ike said:

Income inequality has never been greater though due to no real salary growth in 40 years.

 

"Recasting the 2012 income using the 1979 income distribution, the bottom 99% of families would have averaged about $7,100 more income"

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/business/rethinking-the-income-gap-and-a-college-education.html

income inequality does not equate to poverty. Those are 2 very different things. 

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The happiest countries have free healthcare and education.  In the U.S. both drive you to bankruptcy. 

[Voidler 1,675]

Yeah it’s clearly because women aren’t in the kitchen and black people are having sex with white people 

 

Nevermind the US’s debt proliferation, wage stagnation, economic recessions, wealth inequality, decrease in economic mobility for large populations of country, poor access to healthcare, decreasing standards of education, increases obesity rates, increase in prescription drug dependence and increase in incarceration rates

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On 2018-09-24 at 11:04 AM, bhytre said:

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/07/health/suicide-report-cdc/index.html

 

(CNN) Suicide rates increased by 25% across the United States over nearly two decades ending in 2016, according to research published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Twenty-five states experienced a rise in suicides by more than 30%, the government report finds.

More than half of those who died by suicide had not been diagnosed with a mental health condition, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC.
"These findings are disturbing. Suicide is one of the top 10 causes of death in the US right now, and it's one of three causes that is actually increasing recently, so we do consider it a public health problem -- and something that is all around us," Schuchat said. The other two top 10 causes of death that are on the rise are Alzheimer's disease and drug overdoses, she noted.
In 2016 alone, about 45,000 lives were lost to suicide.
"Our data show that the problem is getting worse," Schuchat said.

 

 

 

What's making people so unhappy iyo? 

lack of God in their life.