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What's Killing America's White Men?

With suicide rates in the US having increased by nearly a third and the spike being caused by middle-aged white men, India Rakusen reports for Our World.

Every year, nearly 45,000 people in America kill themselves. That is more than twice the number that die in homicides, and the numbers are increasing. There is one group in particular causing this spike - white, middle aged men. India Rakusen goes to Montana, where suicide rates are double the national average, to find out what drives so many of these men to despair and taking their own lives.

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Reporter India Rakusen

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