US foreclosures drive up suicide rate

(Dartmouth College) The recent US foreclosure crisis contributed significantly to the nation's jump in suicides, independent of other economic factors associated with the Great Recession, according to a study by Dartmouth and Purdue professors publishing Monday.The study, publishing in the June issue of the American Journal of Public Health, is the first to ever show a correlation between foreclosure and suicide rates.
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