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Young people are becoming less happy than older generations as they suffer “the equivalent of a midlife crisis”, global research has revealed as America’s top doctor warned that “young people are really struggling”.

Dr Vivek Murthy, the US surgeon general, said allowing children to use social media was like giving them medicine that is not proven to be safe. He said the failure of governments to better regulate social media in recent years was “insane”.

Murthy spoke to the Guardian as new data revealed that young people across North America were now less happy than their elders, with the same “historic” shift expected to follow in western Europe.

Declining wellbeing among under-30s has driven the US out of the top 20 list of happiest nations, the 2024 World Happiness Report revealed.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

the Conservative party is often presented as "good for the economy", objectively, they're no better than the Liberals here.

I don't know about Canada (I assume it's the same), but here in the US the conservative is objectively worse for the economy every damn time. The Republicans have been running a "two Santa Clauses" con for decades.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

It's mostly the same.

Federally, the Conservatives are worse for the economy than the Liberals. The NDP (the left wing party) has never held office at the federal level.

Provincially ("state"-level), the NDP are the best, and the Liberals are worse than the Conservatives...but it does get muddied up a bit because in one province, the Liberals in name are basically the Conservatives, and the NDP fill the Liberal niche. Or something. I'm not from that province.

I do know that our Conservatives love starving the beast, and by the time the Liberals (or NDP) get back in power, there is a LOT of shit to clean up.

For example, our Conservative-run province spent millions of dollars to suppress and freeze nurse wages leading to a shortage of nurses. While spending those millions to suppress their wages, the solution to the nursing shortage has been to pay nursing agencies more than 3x the cost per nurse (middleman needs their cut!).

So we are paying money to pay nurses less, while simultaneously paying more for nurses.

It was found by the courts to be illegal to suppress the wages, and the government was ordered to back pay nurses (plus a bunch of other public sector workers). The government appealed that decision multiple times (paying court fees and such all the while), and eventually lost and had to pay out billions in backwages.

But we're still paying extra for the nursing agencies!

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