45 million Americans owe a collective $1.7 trillion in student loans. 34% of recent college graduates are working at jobs that only require a high school diploma.

Domestic violence in the U.S. increased by 8.1% during the 2020 pandemic.

1 in 7 American high school students report having used select illicit or injection drugs (i.e. cocaine, inhalants, heroin, methamphetamines, hallucinogens, ecstasy, or misuse of prescription opioids).

Approximately 42% of U.S. marriages will end in divorce or separation.

American teens from upper-middle class families are 25-30% more likely to have higher rates of depression, anxiety and substance abuse than any other socioeconomic group of young people.

Although rates of depression are lower in Black Americans (24.6%) and Hispanic Americans (19.6%) than in White Americans (34.7%), depression in Blacks and Hispanics is likely to be more persistent.

Americans in metropolitan areas are 42.4% more likely to use illicit drugs than those in rural counties.

White Americans are more likely to die by suicide than people of other ethnic or racial groups.

Generalized across the U.S. workforce, unplanned absences due to poor mental health is estimated to cost the economy $47.6 billion annually in lost productivity.

About one million Americans miss work each day because of stress. Findings suggest 1 in 3 adult Americans are completely overwhelmed with stress and/or worrying constantly most days.

A majority of adults cited inflation (83%), the future of our nation (76%), violence and crime (75%), health care (70%), money (66%), the current political climate (66%), and the racial climate (62%) as significant sources of stress.

In 2020, suicide and nonfatal self-harm cost the nation over $500 billion in medical costs, work loss costs, value of statistical life, and quality of life costs.