DEPRESSION

2012 military suicides hit a record high of 349

WASHINGTON (AP) — Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow worse this year.

By Robert Burns, AP National Security Writer , January 14, 2013

ND residents among least suicidal in country

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A national study suggests that adults in North Dakota are among the least suicidal people in the country.

By Associated Press , October 24, 2011

With NY teen's suicide come spotlight, caution

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Taunted since grade school for hanging out with girls, 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer told his parents things were finally getting better since high school started. Meanwhile, on a blog his parents didn't know about, he posted increasingly desperate notes ruminating on suicide, bullying, homophobia and pop singer Lady Gaga.

By Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press , September 28, 2011

Family of Mich. shooting suspect cites depression

OWOSSO, Mich. (AP) — Relatives of a Michigan man charged with fatally shooting two people, including a well-known local abortion protester, said in a statement Monday that he had battled depression and was experiencing problems with his medications.

September 20, 2009

Tax revenue drop worst since 1932

The recession is starving the government of tax revenue, just as the president and Congress are piling a major expansion of health care and other programs on the nation’s plate and struggling to find money to pay the tab. The numbers could hardly be more stark: Tax receipts are on pace to drop 18 percent this year, the biggest single-year decline since the Great Depression, while the federal deficit balloons to a record $1.8 trillion. Other figures in an Associated Press analysis underscore the recession’s impact: Individual income tax receipts are down 22 percent from a year ago. Corporate income taxes are down 57 percent. Social Security tax receipts could drop for only the second time since 1940, and Medicare taxes are on pace to drop for only the third time ever.

By By Stephen Ohlemacher, The Associated Press , August 04, 2009

Decapitated baby's mother had depression diagnosis

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Relatives of the Texas mother of a 3 1/2-week-old boy found dismembered in his bedroom say she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and postpartum psychosis.

July 28, 2009

IMF: Recession is very deep

The global economy is expected to lurch into reverse this year for the first time since World War II with appalling consequences for nations large and small — trillions of dollars in lost business, millions of people thrust into hunger and homelessness and crime on the rise.

By By Jeannine Aversa, The Associated Press , April 23, 2009

Let’s learn what caused this crisis

More than $9 trillion — in taxpayer dollars — has been pledged, committed, lent or spent by the federal government in response to the economic crisis. Some say that if the economy continues to deteriorate, trillions more might be necessary to prevent another Great Depression. Yet no one has investigated how this crisis happened. That is irresponsible. A comprehensive investigation is essential to prevent this from happening again.

By Sen. Byron Dorgan and Sen. John McCain , March 13, 2009

Fed downgrades economic forecast

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday sharply downgraded its projections for the country’s economic performance this year, predicting the economy will actually shrink and unemployment will rise higher.

February 19, 2009

Economic plunge is the worst in 25 years

Battered by layoffs, debts and dread of worse to come, shoppers clutched ever tighter to their wallets in the final three months of 2008 and thrust the economy into its worst downhill slide in a quarter-century. Americans cut spending on everything from cars to computers, and it’s only getting worse so far in the new year.

By By Jeannine Aversa, The Associated Press , January 31, 2009

Economist sees September bottom

The chief economist for Moody’s Economy.com predicts the economy will hit a “technical bottom” in September but says a turnaround may not be felt for a few years. Mark Zandi spoke at the Marketplace economic development conference in Bismarck.

January 16, 2009

Economy declines 0.5 percent

As the longest recession in a quarter century intensifies, analysts believe the small decline in economic activity in the third quarter has worsened significantly in the current fourth quarter. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic health, declined at an annual rate of 0.5 percent in the July-September quarter. Corporate profits fell 1.2 percent.

By By Martin Crutsinger, The Associated Press , December 24, 2008

Mortgage rates at 30-year low

Rates on 30-year-fixed mortgages dropped this week to their lowest levels in at least 37 years, as the Federal Reserve pledged to pour money into the mortgage market in an effort to spur the moribund U.S. housing market.

December 19, 2008

Fed forecasts more misery

The economic downturn will continue in 2009 in the Upper Plains, with unemployment rates rising and recovery in the residential real estate market expected to take more than a year, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis said Wednesday.

By By Elizabeth Dunbar, The Associated Press , December 18, 2008

Magnet device aims to treat depression

The government has approved the first noninvasive brain stimulator to treat depression — a device that beams magnetic pulses through the skull.

By Lauran Neergaard , October 21, 2008