<story><title>U.S. workers are among the most stressed in the world, new Gallup report finds</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/15/gallup-us-workers-are-among-the-most-stressed-in-the-world.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwkeep</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t most US cities have social services that provide shelter, food and other assistance?&lt;p&gt;[How nice that this is getting downvoted. It&amp;#x27;s a legit question. I have family members who are social workers and know these services exist, and it seems like it&amp;#x27;s most cities, but don&amp;#x27;t know for sure, hence the question mark.]</text></item><item><author>guerrilla</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d add the general lack of a social safety net, at least compared to Europe. All those people can actually become homeless.</text></item><item><author>SmellTheGlove</author><text>I wonder if the root causes here are closer to skyrocketing housing costs, healthcare risks, and relatively stagnant wages making it hard to de-risk the first two.&lt;p&gt;The article mentions -&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  By contrast, the daily stress levels for women in Western Europe went down in the last year, which researchers attribute to social safety nets for parents and workers to prevent unemployment.
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But then goes on to talk about the workplace. I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s the workplace. I think it&amp;#x27;s the lack of psychological security as the middle class ceases to exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragontamer</author><text>Its hard enough to convince a friend to take unemployment checks, let alone go to a shelter or pull out a food-stamp debit card.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a toxic culture in the USA that looks down upon welfare. For those people, welfare doesn&amp;#x27;t exist, even if they find themselves in that environment. And since they&amp;#x27;ve convinced themselves that they&amp;#x27;ll never take welfare, they expect others to follow by their own rules.&lt;p&gt;This culture leads to a particular anti-welfare voting pattern.</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. workers are among the most stressed in the world, new Gallup report finds</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/15/gallup-us-workers-are-among-the-most-stressed-in-the-world.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwkeep</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t most US cities have social services that provide shelter, food and other assistance?&lt;p&gt;[How nice that this is getting downvoted. It&amp;#x27;s a legit question. I have family members who are social workers and know these services exist, and it seems like it&amp;#x27;s most cities, but don&amp;#x27;t know for sure, hence the question mark.]</text></item><item><author>guerrilla</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d add the general lack of a social safety net, at least compared to Europe. All those people can actually become homeless.</text></item><item><author>SmellTheGlove</author><text>I wonder if the root causes here are closer to skyrocketing housing costs, healthcare risks, and relatively stagnant wages making it hard to de-risk the first two.&lt;p&gt;The article mentions -&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  By contrast, the daily stress levels for women in Western Europe went down in the last year, which researchers attribute to social safety nets for parents and workers to prevent unemployment.
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But then goes on to talk about the workplace. I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s the workplace. I think it&amp;#x27;s the lack of psychological security as the middle class ceases to exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reidjs</author><text>True, but in many ways I am more afraid of living in a shelter than on the street, or more realistically, in my car. In your car at least you have some sense of ownership, safety, and personal space. In a shelter you are potentially surrounded by mentally ill unstable drug addicts. It makes sense that many people refuse to use shelters.&lt;p&gt;This is coming from someone who has never lived in a shelter, so I may be wrong, but it&amp;#x27;s definitely my fear and a source of motivation when working not-great jobs.</text></comment>