I don’t remember reading stories about the plight of the American farmer and such depression in the past nine years.
Hummm ... courious.
I’m sure that the story is quite true, just it has been hidden for so many years.
Trump’s fault?!?!?
“I don’t remember reading stories about the plight of the American farmer”.....
It’s been there all along (depression), the media just stays away from it. I am aware of farmers with similar problems. The debt load many small farmers carry, just to keep operating is tremendous and often the farmer can afford to expand by creating more debt load, a bad year of crops, a piece of major equipment goes down, cattle get sick, there are numerous possibilities, a bad decision or two, knowing (or thinking) you can’t get over that major hurdle and there you have it....depression. Certainly there are those who will disagree but I have seen it happen often.
How the state of the economy is literally killing people
U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High
US suicide rate rises sharply, especially among middle-aged whites