{
  "id": 10696,
  "url": "https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e92199",
  "title": "Federal Cuts and Public Health: Social Media Sentiment Among Federal Employees",
  "summary": "Using sentiment analysis of 44,216 public health–related posts from the FedNews Reddit forum (2020-2025), we found that fear and anger scores rose 32% and 63%, respectively, in 2025 over 2024. These results underscore the adverse mental health impact of federal workforce changes and funding cuts on public health employees.",
  "authors": "Yi Wang, Andrew N Crenshaw, Rodrigo Reis",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "jobs-economy,healthcare",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-07-15T21:30:14.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-16T05:10:56.605Z",
  "source_slug": "x-jmir-journal-of-medical-internet-researc",
  "source_name": "JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.jmir.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10696",
  "original_url": "https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e92199",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}