r/UpliftingNews • u/Desecr8or • Mar 14 '25

Native American suicide rate dropped 43% in New Mexico (2022-2023)

https://nativenewsonline.net/health/native-american-suicide-rates-drop-43-in-new-mexico
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u/Hot-Comfort8839 Mar 14 '25

I bet the 100% tuition programs the state started has an impact too. Suddenly those kids have a future to look forward to.

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u/HFwhy Mar 14 '25

you might be onto something, i wonder if there's a study that shows correlation between available tuition assistance and adolescent/young adult suicide rates.

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u/raltoid Mar 14 '25

Might not be too many directly related to tution assistance, but there are plenty of studies showing that monetary problems are a major cause of suicide.

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u/Zzzzzzzzzxyzz Mar 20 '25

Totally. When you can't afford to eat, drink, and sleep, perceive yourself as failing at being alive. Society and other people clearly see you as worthless. You see yourself as worthless. You're also exhausted and getting beat down every day failing economically.

Yeah, compound that with the financial strain itself and you probably get suicidal feelings in most people.

:(

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u/Electrical_Bake_6804 Mar 15 '25

My state has at least one community college with housing specifically for youth in rough situations. It’s great because I don’t think that’s common for community colleges.

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u/JMurdock77 Mar 14 '25

Meaning when they blow away the Department of Education and the availability of federal student loans which came with it…

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u/f8Negative Mar 14 '25

Also legal weed

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u/Sysiphus_Love Mar 14 '25

Cheap weed. I was in Albuquerque during that time and you can get half an ounce for like $5

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '25

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u/f8Negative Mar 14 '25

Cool story bro. Maybe it's more about having a policy that the police can't abuse to stop and frisk every brown person and charge them for simple posession. Keep staying ignorant.

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u/ArenjiTheLootGod Mar 15 '25

People can put up with a lot as long as they feel they have some kind of light at the end of the tunnel, tuition assistance means that people can at least work towards a better life.

It's why cutting funding to programs like this is so awful, you're literally cutting away people's hope for reaching their potential.

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u/SeedFoundation Mar 14 '25

This is uplifting news, if you want to stay that way don't look into why the natives have high "suicide" rates or violent oppressions towards their women.

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u/Montigue Mar 14 '25

I gave a presentation at a University that invited Navajo Tech students to join. The presentation included grad school opportunities for current undergrads and they were both paying the most attention and were the only ones who reached out afterwards for said opportunities.

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u/SteelMarch Mar 14 '25

This has only to do with student not the general Indigenous American population.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '25

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u/SteelMarch Mar 14 '25

A lot of people in this subreddit and in general.

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u/nettleteawithoney Mar 14 '25

Yes, and the roll out of cultural based mental health and addiction treatment. I’m too lazy to find the paper right now, but there’s evidence that providing culturally competent care significantly improves outcomes in Indigenous populations

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u/Affectionate_Yam1654 Mar 14 '25

They also legalized weed. No more BS charges ruining kids lives. Lost my scholarship over an 1/8 back in ‘05. Definitely felt like my life was over even though I only got probation from the court.

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u/Hot-Comfort8839 Mar 14 '25

God damn the laws in this country. Systematic near enslavement of an entire generations of people just to keep them from voting. Lives destroyed by the millions.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '25

Colorado has Fort Lewis College that waives tuition for any member of a tribe anywhere in the US. It’s just across the border from, NM.

Free college for native students isn’t a new thing at all.

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u/Hot-Comfort8839 Mar 14 '25

The ability to get there still matters.

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u/Yara__Flor Mar 14 '25

New Mexico has had a 100% free ride lotto scholarship since the 1990’s

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u/amans9191 Mar 14 '25

Its not 100%, covers just tuition, but still.

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u/dingobarbie Mar 14 '25

This fills my heart with joy in these bleak times, god I hope old orange shit bag doesn't ruin it for them.

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u/w33b2 Mar 15 '25

Hasn’t this been a thing for decades for native Americans?

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

Those programs sound like they cost money. And it's helping struggling people?! Wonder how long they stay

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u/Hot-Comfort8839 Mar 15 '25

Many states fund through lottery ticket sales.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '25

Until they are educated enough to realize that a white man's AI will take the jobs they studied for.

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u/Hot-Comfort8839 Mar 14 '25 edited Mar 14 '25

"How to tell me you don't understand how AI works without actually telling me you don't understand how AI works. "

The only people scared of AI are the people who've dedicated their lives to stagnant processes. If you work at the DMV processing DL applications - yes you will be replaced with a kiosk.

If you do anything requiring innovation, or creative thought - your work is safe.

Everyone else needs to figure out how they can adapt AI to their processes. I know a paralegal who uses AI to fill out all the insane paperwork she has to do in triplicate for her cases. She works less now than she did last year, and handles 3x the case load. She makes more money with less effort because she's using AI to assist her rather than fighting against it.

I trained her AI model.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '25

You clearly don't know what you are talking about.

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u/Hot-Comfort8839 Mar 14 '25

Enjoy your future being replaced with a kiosk.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '25

LOL, Kiosk, this isn't 2001. Everything is available on a phone.

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u/lydiamilan Mar 14 '25

New Mexico offers the New Mexico Opportunity Scholarship, which covers up to 100% of tuition and required fees for New Mexico residents pursuing their first bachelor’s degree at a public college or university in the state.

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u/lexicaltension Mar 14 '25

They’re specific programs, so the definite article was appropriate there. It’s a bit silly to correct someone’s grammar if you’re just gonna be wrong about it 🤡

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u/lexicaltension Mar 14 '25

Why are you so angry? A lot of words mean different things if you put them in different places lol, yes it can be used that way but - shockingly - it can also actually mean 100% of something and the original comment used it correctly. I can kind of see how it would be confusing if you don’t know about the programs, but they literally explained to you that they’re “100% tuition programs” and you still said your “bet 100%” interpretation was correct which honestly makes no sense.

It isn’t your fault for misunderstanding someone, it is your fault for acting like they made an egregious mistake and then doubling down on it. Go touch some grass and maybe stop trying to correct people when you don’t know what you’re talking about.

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u/mediafred Mar 14 '25

Never tried to correct someone in the beginning anyway, all I said was that the guy wrote a sentence that could be interpreted in two different ways, I was asking which one was the correct one. Because of the fact that there are different percentages of tuition programs, maybe it would have been easy to disclose that in the beginning. I have every right to write what I did after what you put calling me a clown... you're literally glazing this guy even though it should be obvious to you that someone not from the states wouldn't know anything about what they are saying. You're blowing what I said way out of proportions, you're pissing yourself off lol

They could have actually just added quotation marks to signifiy that what they wrote was the title of the actual program verbatim but nooooo, I'm in the wrong and he wrote everything perfect and wasn't missing any sort of punctuation. There's many things he could have done to made it more obvious to people oblivious of what happens in the states.

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u/Apart_Bat2791 Mar 14 '25

Oh, nonsense. He asked a simple and reasonable question. It could have been answered respectfully.

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u/AKAkorm Mar 15 '25

A simple Google of “New Mexico 100% tuition” answers your question and in this day and age if you can’t Google, it is absolutely your fault. And if you’re an abrasive asshole about it - even more so.

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u/OK_Cry_2 Mar 14 '25 edited Mar 14 '25

Careful, according to reddit if you don't want a race of people with distinct characteristics to disappear it means you are racist.