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The Employment Underdogs and the Mystery of Their Unemployment

Unemployed individuals are significantly more likely to experience heightened levels of anxiety, depression, and hopelessness than their employed peers, and these mental health issues often intensify the longer a person is unemployed.1

Certain employment underdog groups are globally excluded while others are excluded locally, in some places but not in others. However, both global and local exclusion are surprisingly uniform and actually follow a pattern.

THE PUZZLING GLOBAL PATTERN OF WORKPLACE EXCLUSION

It seems that the groups we exclude fall into two large categories. The first ...

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