https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/05/20/federal-workers-trump-mental-health/

“In 2011, economists examined a decade of data and found that mass layoffs resulted in an additional suicide for every 4,200 men and for every 7,100 women losing their jobs. Mass layoffs can devastate entire communities, they noted, fracturing social networks and creating pools of applicants fighting over limited jobs.”

1/3 are veterans, often more vulnerable than non-veteran cohorts.