Not Just A Paycheck Analysis

In the video “Not Just A Paycheck,” the video talks about the connection between unemployment and higher rates of health issues. Some of these health problems include; stroke, alcohol abuse, heart and kidney disease, suicide and homicide. Moreover, the video talks about how the closing of a manufacturing plant in Greenville, resulted in a rise in the number of health issue caseloads within local hospitals. In addition, professor Harvey Brenner predicts that there will be a rise in deaths due to the rise in unemployment, and the shutdown of Electrolux in Greenville. Furthermore, more and more people are suffering from unemployment with their health because of all the stress hormones it is building up inside of them. The stresses of unemployment are associated with changes in the way our psycho-physiological system functions, which results in different health …show more content…
Additionally, the caseloads for depression, attempted suicide, and domestic abuse nearly tripled from eighty cases in 2004 to about two hundred and forty cases in Greenville, the year after Electrolux closed. Furthermore, the closing of the manufacturing plant in Greenville leaves people with no hope of making money to sustain their lives, which gradually leads to more and more cases of depression. In addition, when Electrolux closed down in Greenville, it also caused many people to lose their health benefits, which meant that those unemployed people would no longer be able to afford to pay for health care. As all these stresses begin to accumulate over time, the body slowly starts to deteriorate and make people much more susceptible to medical issues, as listed earlier. Moreover, the loss of these manufacturing plants is not only causing unemployment rates to rise, but they are also causing excess