Low suicide rate linked to wage increase
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Published: Jan. 9, 2020 at 3:05 PM EST
Researchers at Emory University discovered raising the minimum wage by $1 reduces suicide rates by up to almost 6%.
They studied 25 years worth of data from all 50 states to draw the correlation.
It corroborates a study from last year where researchers found a 10% increase in the minimum wage reduced suicides by 3.6%.
Both studies looked at Americans without college degrees.
Here's a
for more on the study.
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