A headline in the guardian asked the question why are americas farmers killing themselves in record numbers yes according to a study conducted last year the centers for Disease Control and prevention found that the suicide rate for Agricultural Workers in seventeen states was nearly five times higher when compared to the general population but now experts fear the c. D. C. Is numbers may actually be wrong the suicide numbers may and back be higher because the original study left out some major agricultural states like iowa for example and its been revealed that an unknown number of farmers have been disguising their suicides as farm accidents in order to collect insurance payouts i looked at the bill salesman. Two distinctly different segments of the population one a little city one a Little Country but both are suffering an awful lot this is the reality that many of the current political leaders of the United States continue to ignore in their never ending quest to appease big money c
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Some of these authors have a will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Often i think of the beautiful town that is seated by the sea and often in fossil upanddown the pleasant streets of that town and my youth comes back to me. Welcome to portland, maine, on booktv. Located on a peninsula, it was the original capital of maine and started as a fishing and trading village. Today its the largest city in the state with a population of about 66,000. It still has strong ties to its maritime history with lobstering and tourism in its largest economic drivers. With help of our spectrum Cable Partners for the next 90 minutes will feature the areas history and literary community. Whitney kent are special feature on portland with a history of lobstering industry. We begin our special feature. Over here is my gps and radar. So and thought it helps us figure out where we are. I dont mark my traps with the gps. I i kind of do it by feel. Look at that bad boy. Its a