'Living While Black' index measures variety of stress factors for African Americans
... tries to determine whether being Black in America exacts a 'social cost' by being exposed to several stressors that can severely affect the quality of life among Black Americans." The Penn State researchers constructed a Living While Black index that includes state-level comparisons of Black poverty rates...Benefits to employers outweigh enhanced depression-care costs
... the Archives of General Psychiatry. "Depression exacts economic costs totaling tens of billions of dollars annually in the United States, mostly from lost work productivity," noted Wang. "Yet we're not making the most of available services and treatments. Our study calculates what employers' return on th...