Madness in economics
Research by: Katie Rowe Design By: Earl Gosnell
Research paper
Important facts:
One in four american adults are afflicted with a mental illness.
One in seventeen are afflicted with a serious mental illness.
5-6 million workers ages 16-54 are unemployed because of mental illness.
Amoung those who work, annual income decreases $3500-6000.
Overall impact:
Mental illness causes adverse impacts on the economy. The direct cost
of madness is about 55 billion dollars a year. The indirect costs, such as: loss of
employment, decrease of productivity, accidents, and social welfare drain our
economy of 273 billion dollars a year.
