Can Government Combat Loneliness?

Here's a number that should stop you in your tracks.

15% of American men now report having zero close friends, not one.

A Crisis Text Line report published last month analyzed 1.5 million messages from 2025, the highest volume in their history.

Fewer than 20% of those texters were male.

The ones that were, they reached out and were far more likely to discuss suicide.

One in three conversations with boys under 14 mentioned it.

It's a Texas story as well because Texas suicide rate climbed 28% in the last two decades.

In El Paso, rates have increased across the last 10 years straight.