The improvement in employment started in 2010 when you-know-who was president. Trump had nothing to do with it, other than the faint praise that he hasn't screwed it up.
Well, then again...
farm bankruptcies are through the silo roofNow to be fair, the article claims that, "Nearly one-third of projected U.S. net farm income in 2019 came from government aid and taxpayer-subsidized commodity insurance payments, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture." And, "The court data indicates those supports did help prevent a more serious economic fallout, said John Newton, chief economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation. Some of the biggest bankruptcy rate increases were seen in regions, such as apple growers in the Pacific Northwest, that did not receive much or any of the latest round of trade aid from the Trump administration."
So credit where credit is due to Trump for using
socialism to prop up failing industry. Of course, that industry probably wouldn't be failing as much had Trump not gutted the farm industry with his stupid trade wars. But hey,
"Trade wars are good, and easy to win."Also, that one-month increase in life expectancy? Largely a result of better cancer and other treatments, the end result of
basic research that takes years to come to fruition.
Oh yeah - that increase in cancer survivability? It's offset by an increase in suicides in
Trump country. I wonder why that is? Oh wait... it's because
A number of factors appear to be driving suicide rates up in rural America, including poverty, low income and underemployment, said lead study author Danielle Steelesmith, a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center.
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But there is hope!
Lack of access to health care in rural areas further compounds the problem. “Insurance can be a proxy for people’s access to mental health care,” Steelesmith said.
“Lack of health insurance kills people,” [Dr. Albert Wu, an internist and a professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health] said. “More insurance, including the expansion of Medicaid, could help.”
I wonder what program we have that could help with that?
