Looking At Violence In America With A Financial Lens [NPR.org]
Pain, grief and emotional loss follow mass shootings in America, and there are also other costs that add up to violence's financial toll . It's Ted Miller's job to crunch numbers on social ills like mass shootings. He's a health economist with the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. For example, when then-U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords was shot in a 2011 incident that left six people dead and 13 injured (including Giffords), her medical costs alone were well over $500,000, Miller says.