Warning: Unemployment can be a killer

[IDemo]

Being unemployed is no fun -- if for no other reason than daytime TV really, really sucks. But a new study says unemployment is potentially fatal, too.

Researchers at the Stony Brook University Medical Center analyzed 42 studies covering 20 million people and found that the risk of premature death was 63 percent higher for those who experienced an episode of unemployment.

“Our study results clearly indicate that unemployment is not just bad for your pocketbook; it’s also bad for your health,” says Joseph E. Schwartz, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the university. Which is a pretty big understatement since there’s no less-healthy condition than dead.

Guys, it gets worse. The researchers also found that the risk was worse for men than women, 78 percent to 37 percent.

http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2011/04/12/6453040-warning-unemployment-can-be-a-killer-

[Little Star]

1. k&r

[Bragi]

2. This is good evidence of harm being done

So what then do we make of already-profitable companies that move jobs, create unemployment, just to make super-profits?

Might we eventually see evidence of this sort being used to back lawsuits for health-damaging "wrongful unemployment" sometime in the future?

I'd love to see that happen.

[raccoon]

3. Another way it might be bad for your health is being unemployed,

you are likely to be uninsured, unless you are fortunate enough to be on a spouse's or parent's policy, or you are covered by Medicare. Or able to afford private insurance--not likely for most unemployed people.

Which is not to say, of course, that ALL employed people have group medical insurance, because more and more these days, they don't offer it.

[OHdem10]

4. Whistle on Pass the Grave yard. Since both parties are hell bent

on taking us back to the days of Aristocracy, the Activists
must take on a new stance.

[MacNfries]

5. Its called Suicide ...

Lots of older, white males taking their own lives because of long unemployment periods. We've had 2 cases in North Carolina so far this year. If you're a white male, over 55 ... you're basically considered unemployable.

During the last election the North Carolina congress became totally Republican run ... both houses. First time in over a hundred years ... all due to the TP's showing up and running constant negative ads of the incumbent Democrats. It worked!

Immediately they began cutting entitlements and services; just recently they discontinued the Unemployment Extension program in North Carolina which had been approved to run through 2012.

[madrchsod]

6. no surprise to me...

been laid off many times since i started working in 1964 and over the years it just gets worse.the low point was when i realized i`d never work a real job again. my social security is less than the 20 dollars a day....hello walmart doorman!