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The U.S. Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (CDC) released a new Vital Signs report on Thursday, 7 June, 2018.
In the press release about the new report, the CDC states that:
Suicide rates have been rising in nearly every state, according to the latest Vital Signs report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2016, nearly 45,000 Americans age 10 or older died by suicide. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death and is one of just three leading causes that are on the rise.
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Researchers found that more than half of people who died by suicide did not have a known diagnosed mental health condition at the time of death. Relationship problems or loss, substance misuse; physical health problems; and job, money, legal or housing stress often contributed to risk for suicide. Firearms were the most common method of suicide used by those with and without a known diagnosed mental health condition.
Are any Soylentils contemplating suicide? Do you know anyone who has attempted or succeeded in taking their own life? Why do you think suicide rates are on the rise?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Friday June 08 2018, @08:22PM (8 children)
The boomers do suck, but most of your list is merely a result of too many people too few jobs means redefinition of the basic standard.
My grannie (Think WWII gen not boomer) worked in payroll, and the work isn't any harder now but magically you need a CPA and BS in accounting because of competition for too few jobs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @08:29PM (3 children)
This is the rise of credentialism over competence and the credentials are expensive. There's currently more jobs than employees to fill them, many will be in the "gig economy" which is fine for would-be entrepreneurs or even those going the credentialed route.
(Score: 5, Informative) by VLM on Friday June 08 2018, @08:39PM (1 child)
Whenever I see propaganda along those lines, research indicates they're offering pay thats half whats required to live and do the job, half the going rate at competitors or similar jobs, or often both.
There's an incredible shortage of IT professionals... if you're willing to accept half what it costs to live (for example, in SV) or accept $10/hr in flyover land when McDonalds is paying $15. Now you want a fair days pay for a fair days work, thats simply not available anymore because medical insurance costs $30K/yr and every productive employee has to pay the salary of someone in the diversity department or whatever.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @09:03PM
So work gigs to fund setting up a company that isn't going to do that. It was normal in the 70s and 80s for people who went on to be successful to sleep on their friends couches, exactly because they couldn't afford living expenses while scratching an income and investing in their future. Both Apple and Google began in garages while Allen and Gates used university computers.
Diversity officers are part of a parasitic rent-seeking class, they create no wealth and detract value. A company that hires based on merit will out-compete those that do not and the gender and diversity studies credentialed assholes can go fuck themselves.
(Score: 2) by rcamera on Saturday June 09 2018, @02:14AM
3.8% unemployment (thanks for the early heads-up, realDonaldTrump). and that's real news. unlike the fake news of 4% that hussein obama's labor department published. of course, then there's the u6 [wikipedia.org] measurement [stlouisfed.org], which is probably a more meaningful measure of economic health than the u3 number the masses see in the headlines
and as for more jobs than (presumably "prospective") employees to fill them, it would help all parties if companies trying to hire were willing to train on the job, like a few decades ago. instead, we end up with unrealistic expectations and prerequisites before an application will even be viewed by a person, like the old "20+ years experience in S3", despite the fact it's only been around for 12 years
and thanks to the WWII-era holdover of employee-sponsored medical insurance, the gig-economy isn't really a viable option for anyone 26 or older or not living in mom's basement. i imagine that a good amount of difference between u5 and u6 can be accounted for by the "gig economy"
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @10:31PM (3 children)
Your grannie was very likely literate. Now you can graduate high school without being able to read. Crap, a friend was showing me some resumes for a job opening she had. I think you can now graduate college without being able to write a coherent sentence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @03:51PM
Maybe they are on unemployment and really don't want the job? Deliberate sabotage unless they actually want the job?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @04:10PM (1 child)
So what's the point of the credentialism? It certainly has nothing to do with the quality of one's education. If you have to many applicants, just toss out some randomly.
Also, the US education system was always abysmal and designed to create rote memorization drones.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @11:54PM
Interesting. I have a friend from the soviet union telling me last week that the US education system is bad because it does not emphasize rote memorization like he had growing up. When I was young, I remember watching news shows on Japan and Korea and how their students would do hours of memorization of math tables every night. Including weekends.