How the Great Recession Hurt Americans' Health
As jobs evaporated, blood pressure skyrocketed.
A new paper confirms what many Americans likely suspected: A mass economic downturn—on the scale that occurred during the Great Recession—makes people physically sick.
Past research has been surprisingly mixed on the effect of economic downturns on physical health. A published in 2016 found that though alcohol use and traffic fatalitiess have that death rates actually during recessions, as for in 2012. Cubans during the early-90s economic crisis.
