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?
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.