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by pwinnski 2116 days ago
The projection of increased suicide in that study is based primarily on unemployment rate, but unemployment in 2020 is considerably different from unemployment in 2018 (the year they used as a baseline) due to unusual federal benefits that left as many as 68% earning more while unemployed than they did while working[0]. Actual suicide rates do to seem yet to be climbing as predicted, although it will take some time to see what the actual deleterious events turn out to be.

[0] up to 68% https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/many-americans-are-gett... or 47% https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/47-percent-will-mak... https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanguina/2020/04/28/some-earni...