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RE: 'Deaths of despair' soaring among Gen Z & millennials: 'It's the economy, stupid' (Op-Ed)
Real talk for a moment. I graduated from University in July of 2008, with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. I was the exact person listed in this Op-Ed: No jobs, but plenty of unpaid internships and student debt that I couldn't get out of. Stuck working a dead end retail job, living 33% below the poverty line, but ineligible for any assistance because I lived with my parents. My parents were dealing with my brother's recovery from a Traumatic Brain Injury, wondering why I wasn't more gainfully employed, it sucked. I actually considered offing myself at that time. To think, I could have been part of that statistic.