Visiting the University of Oregon’s Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health Tuesday morning, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden quoted a statistic several times.
“40% of the young people in a recent survey said that they felt an extraordinary sense of helplessness,” Wyden said.
It actually hit a high of 42% in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control’s 2023 Youth Risk Behavior survey. The number had been increasing since 2021…