Morning and tell us why what prompted you to investigate and write the story. Guest thank you for having me. That thered it was is a suicide epidemic across all graphics. That was something all demographics. That was something my editor and i talked about and the more we dug into it, the worst of it was among middleaged men. As someone who is a member of the demographic, i became intrigued and fascinated about why this was and just kind of started to investigate it from there. Host lets give our viewers and listeners a snapshot from your extensive piece, men in the United States average 22 suicides for 100,000 people. 45 to 64, uped to 30. 1 in 2017. The states with the highest rates are montana with 28. 9 per 100,000. Alaska, 27 . 9 which is all doubled the national rate. New mexico, idaho, and utah round out the top six states. What do you think is causing the geographic centrality of the state and these high suicide rates. Guest all of the states and even alaska which he really did
Epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the west with middle age men dying in record numbers. Thank you for being here this morning. Tell us what prompted you to investigate and write the story. Guest thank you for having me. There is ad it was suicide epidemic across all demographics. That is something my editor and i talked about and the more we dug into it we realized the worst of it was among middleage men and as someone who is a member of the demographic, i became intrigued and fascinated about why this was an just started investigating it from there. Host lets give our viewers a snapshot from your extensive piece of Rolling Stone. Men in the u. S. Average 22 suicides per 100,000 people with those ages of 4564 representing the Fastest Growing group. Per are up from 20. 8 100,000 and 19 eddie nine to 30. 1 and 2017. The states with the highest rates are montana and alaska, all roughly double the national rate. And idaho are also in the top six. What is causi
Is a suicide epidemic across all graphics. That was something all demographics. That was something my editor and i talked about and the more we dug into it, the worst of it was among middleaged men. As someone who is a member of the demographic, i became intrigued and fascinated about why this was and just kind of started to investigate it from there. Host lets give our viewers and listeners a snapshot from your extensive piece, men in the United States average 22 suicides for 100,000 people. 45 to 64, uped to 30. 1 in 2017. The states with the highest rates are montana with 28. 9 per 100,000. Alaska, 27 . 9 which is all doubled the national rate. New mexico, idaho, and utah round out the top six states. What do you think is causing the geographic centrality of the state and these high suicide rates. Guest all of the states and even alaska which he really did not get into, but shares the same characteristics is that, these are states where men, speaking into the little bit of , these a
Is 202 hat line 7488001. We also welcome your comments on twitter. Tweet us cspanwj. Post your comments on facebook. We are talking about the federal Death Penalty being reinstated by the department of justice effective as of thursday. The executions set to begin in december of this year. The Justice Department plans to restart Capital Punishment after long hiatus. The attorney general william barr ordered the euro of presence to schedule executions for five inmates on death row. Each was convicted of murdering children among others. Owe it to the victims and their families to carry out the sentence imposed by our Justice System. They write that by diving into the Death Penalty debate, the Trump Administration is pushing back against the countrys recent trend of declining executions. More on the washington post. One of the authors of that piece, mark berman, is on the phone with us this morning. What was behind the administrations decision to reinstate the federal Death Penalty . Guest
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