As the suicide rate increases across the United States, researchers at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health approached the issue by considering the financial anxiety caused by low wages. Alex Gertner, Jason Rotter, and Paul Shafer used the LawAtlas minimum wage dataset to explore the associations between state minimum wages and suicide rates in the United States.
Their study was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on March 21, 2019.
Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research spoke with Mr. Gertner about their study.
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