s are connected to early death in the United States and United Kingdom. Claes-Goran Stefansson found the same relationship in Sweden where long term unemployed had a 37% higher death rate. Reason for this being in the United States, loss of employment results in loss of healthcare and people simply put off going to the doctor. This is not a worry for Europeans who continue to receive universal healthcare. The statistics could also be due to anomic consequence which results in heart disease, strokes etc which applies to a more general population. The American government takes a minimalist approach to unemployment and treats it as a temporary issue and shies away from giving too generous of a support in fear that people won’t return to work. Unemployment rates in Europe are 3% higher than the United States but this might be because the latter counts part-time workers as employed, and since Americans receive little to no support, they take any job they can get their hands on. European unemployment benefit systems have backup income replacement programs which prevents long-term unemployed from sliding into poverty (which one must prove in the United States in order to continue receiving benefits after 26 weeks). Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer touch on the difficulty of even gaining access to welfare in the United States in their book, “$2.00 A Day”. The little help New Deal and Great Society offered was plagued by the negative racial stereotypes since Reagan turned his focus to the system. The main concern for European governments when it comes to unemployment is that it leads to social exclusion which leads to depression. To combat this, unemployed have free access to theaters and museums in almost all European countries which lets them participate in the public sphere.

In 1946, Sweden and Britain established first centralized, government owned health-