MAGA's are starting to push that deaths go up as unemployment goes up. This is flat wrong.
Here is a typical post I have started to see by Trump defenders: Every 1% increase in unemployment=1500 deaths over the normal rate.
Study: Great Recession Led To Fewer Deaths
Recessions are painful for a variety of reasons. A new study shows that during the Great Recession, mortality rates declined faster in areas where the unemployment grew.
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
Recessions, as we know, can be painful. People lose jobs, families lose their homes, and it can take years for an economy to recover. But there are researchers in the United States and in other industrialized nations who are finding out that recessions can have a counterintuitive effect on health and mortality. And let's explore this with NPR social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam.
Hey, Shankar.
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: Hey, David.
GREENE: So recessions can be good in some ways?
VEDANTAM: In some ways, David, recessions seem to change the mortality rate, and not in the direction you might expect. I was speaking with the economist Erin Strumpf at McGill University. Along with Thomas Charters, Sam Harper and Ari Nandi, she studied the effect of the Great Recession a decade ago by looking at 366 metropolitan areas in the United States, which cover about 80 percent of the U.S. population.
More: https://www.npr.org/2018/01/09/576669311/hidden-brain-great-recession-deaths
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