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Latest Suicide Data Show the Depth of U.S. Mental Health Crisis
U.S. suicide rates are at the highest level since World War II.
21 Jun 2019, 10:03 PM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- So many statistics say that life in the U.S. is getting better. Unemployment is at the lowest level since 1969. Violent crime has fallen sharply since the 1990s—cities such as New York are safer than they’ve ever been. And Americans lived nine years longer, on average, in 2017 than they did in 1960. It would make sense that the psychic well-being of the nation would improve along with measures like that.
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