An interview with Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson about the tenth leading killer of Americans — suicide

Johnson cosponsored the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act, to make 9–8–8 a national crisis hotline. Amidst a pandemic and historic job losses, could it mitigate a deepening crisis?

Poor for a Minute
17 min readJun 22, 2020

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We are the stories we tell. But, because ignoring something doesn’t make it go away, we are also the stories we don’t tell.

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Poor for a Minute

We are all poor due to the broken social safety net in the United States, the world’s richest nation. Portfolio, bio, contact: ThacherSchmid.com