The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
January 10, 2020

Study: Raising Minimum Wage by a Dollar Could Prevent Thousands of Suicides a Year
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A new study suggests that raising the minimum wage by a dollar an hour
could save thousands of people from dying by suicide each year - and
that if the minimum wage had been at least $2 an hour higher, nearly
60,000 lives could have been saved between 1990 and 2015. Suicide is now
the second leading cause of death in the United States among children
and youth ages 10 to 24, with the suicide rate among black youth rising
faster than any other racial group.


.