The Los Angeles Times (3/20, Kaplan) reports that a study published in the March issue of the journal Preventing Chronic Disease, a publication of the CDC, suggests that “jobless adults under 25 were three times more likely to be depressed than their counterparts with jobs.” About “12% of Americans between ages 18 and 25 were deemed to be depressed based on their answers to eight questions that were part of a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments.” However, “within this age group, those who were unemployed were 3.17 times more likely to be depressed than their counterparts with jobs.”
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— “For younger adults, unemployment may triple the risk of depression,”Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, March 19, 2015.