Farmers' suicides in the United States
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title:
Farmers' suicides in the United States
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Farmers' suicides in the United States refers to the instances of American farmers taking their own lives, largely since the 1980s, partly due to their falling into debt, but as a larger mental-health crisis among U.S. agriculture workers. In the Midwest alone, over 1,500 farmers have taken their own lives since the 1980s. It mirrors a crisis happening globally: in Australia, a farmer dies by suicide every four days; in the United Kingdom, one farmer a week takes their own life, in France it is
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Phenomenon in the rural United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_the_United_States
date created:
2021-08-10T13:47:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T11:18:25Z
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