In the 1930s, the effects of a bad economy were highly visible: Long bread lines and rickety carts with hand-written signs offerings apples for a few cents apiece.
Today, the unemployed often suffer behind closed doors, alone. They have food and a roof over their heads but face a bleak future. It’s one reason that in the U.S. anyway, the suicide rate among men in their fifties, the group arguably most vulnerable to long-term unemployment, underemployment, or a significant drop in....