The Center for Disease Control and Prevention released a study on suicide and the economy.
"Suicides reached a record high of 22 people per 100,000 in 1932 during the Great Depression, CDC officials said in a report published online today in the American Journal of Public Health. That was double the rates seen in 2000, when 10 people per 100,000 took their lives as the economy prospered, the study found. "
Suicide Rates in U.S. Increase as Economy Declines, CDC Researchers Find - Bloomberg
Why is the CDC studying suicide rates and the economy? Do they not have something better to do? Why isn't this research done by the National Institute of Health who has a whole Division called the National Institute of Mental Health that does research? One of the branches of the government concerned with the economy would be a second choice. Is this another example of why the cost cutters in Congress should be taking a harder look at government overlap/duplication? Since the President is the one that opened the door on this government overlap/duplication issue when he talked about the salmon in his State of the Union speech, I thought I'd mention it. He also pointed out in that same speech that a dozen different agencies deal with exports and at least five with housing. I think he's onto something and hopefully something is being done about it by Congress.
"The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they're in freshwater, but the Commerce Department handles them when they're in saltwater," he said. "And I hear it gets even more complicated once they're smoked." - President Obama in his 2011 State of the Union address
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