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As student loan payments resume, Biden cancels $9 billion in debt Akayla Gardner Bloomberg News WASHINGTON â President Joe Biden detailed $9 billion in new student-loan relief, saying it would provide a boost to the U.S. economy as he sought to reassure Americans resuming payments that the administration is working to ease their debt burdens. âThis kind of relief is lifechanging for individuals and their families. But itâs good for our economy as a whole as well,â Biden said Wednesday at the White House. âBy freeing millions of Americans from the crushing burden of student debt, it means they can go and get their lives in order,â Biden added. âThey can think about buying a house, they can start a business or starting a family. This matters. This matters in their daily lives.â See $9 billion on 5
Tribune News Service President Joe Biden detailed $9 billion in relief as millions of Americans resume student loan payments.
A decade of data describes nationwide youth mental health crisis Mayo Clinic Staff Mayo Clinic News
Courtesy of Shema Lincoln Teedeenae âJacksonâ Yearby, 17, went missing from Stillwater on Jan. 26, 2023.
Stillwater teen still missing Isaac Terry Staff Reporter
Teedeenae âJacksonâ Yearby, 17, went missing from Stillwater on Jan. 26, 2023. Shema Lincoln, the mother of Teedeenae Yearby, has to keep on living with the burden of her son being missing. âI have to take it one day at a time,â Lincoln said. âThere are days that are bad, there are some days that are better than others...
but I canât not function because of what is going on. We have to do the best we can to just keep moving every day. Me and my husband and my other two sons, we just lean on each other for comfort and support, trying to do the best we can.â Lincoln regularly does all she can to spread awareness for Yearby by handing out fliers, telling those around her and posting on social media. âJackson is missed by his family and his friends,â Lincoln said. âAnd we do our best each and every day to look for
him, call him, we still try to send messages to him on social media. We are still looking... and all we ask is for is for someone, anyone out there who knows anything to please call Stillwater Police Department. They have an anonymous tip line, you donât have to give them your name, you just need to tell them what you know... any kind of information, big or small, matters... Our lives are turned upside down because we donât know where our son, our brother, our grandson or our nephew is. We miss him and we want him home.â See Teen on 8
When Tanner Bommersbach, M.D., and a team of Mayo Clinic researchers analyzed national records of pediatric emergency department visits, they provided essential data to describe the growing national crisis in pediatric mental health. Their study found that from 2011 to 2020, youth visits to emergency departments for mental health reasons doubled, while the proportion of visits for suicide-related symptoms increased fivefold. The teamâs findings were recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Bommersbach, a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow, hopes the studyâs results will be useful in national conversations about youth mental health. Taking on a serious problem Dr. Bommersbach has had a longstanding interest in childrenâs mental health. During high school and college,
he worked in a North Dakota group home for children with developmental disabilities where he observed their interactions with their psychiatrists. The experience prompted him to pursue a career as a physician. He attended Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine where he found a mentor in psychiatrist J. Michael Bostwick, M.D. Working with Dr. Bostwick during medical school, Dr. Bommersbach became interested in research and took part in studies investigating how people with suicidal symptoms interact with the healthcare system. After pursuing a masterâs in public health to learn more about research methodology and completing his residency, Dr. Bommersbach returned to Mayo for fellowship training, where he has continued to conduct research on suicide prevention and epidemiology in pediatric mental health. He was recently first author on another study about rising rates of suicidal behaviors and unmet treatment needs among U.S. adults who experience a major depressive episode. See Crisis on 6
Tribune News Service From 2011 to 2020, youth visits to emergency departments for mental health reasons doubled, while the proportion of visits for suicide-related symptoms increased fivefold.