Sociology professor: Jordan has witnessed several suicide attempts by unemployed people

Roya News
Oct 01, 2022

Sociology professor: Jordan has witnessed several suicide attempts by unemployed people


In his interview with Roya, on Saturday, al-Khuzai attributed the suicide attempts to not investing the energies, experiences and skills of young people, which made them desperate people because they lost hope of finding work.

He added that unemployment causes social and health diseases, especially if its duration is prolonged, indicating that despair in particular infiltrates the unemployed after six months without work.

Al-Khuzai indicated that those who spent two years without work constitute 18% of the total unemployed percentage, and 29% of those who spent a year without work.