The national poll released Wednesday from Effective School Solutions, an organization implementing mental health care in schools, found that the countrys school administrators, parents, and students continue to battle a youth mental health crisis. Nearly all (90%) administrators and almost 60% of parents reported that the crisis is growing. Roughly 60% of administrators say young peoples mental health remains the same or has worsened compared to a year ago. 

Amid the isolation and trauma of COVID-19, this degradation has only gotten worse, says Duncan Young, the CEO of Effective School Solutions. Its very likely that the echoes and traumas of the pandemic will persist in youth mental health long after the pandemic itself is behind us, which speaks to the urgent need for better solutions for our kids.

The poll of 200 school administrators and 1,000 parents who have children in kindergarten through twelfth grade was conducted in the fall. 

The poll found that addressing mental health in the early stages in schools proves difficult, and educators say they face challenges with staffing and funding. COVID relief funds have helped address school districts mental health challenges, but they will likely expire within the next couple of years, Young says. He draws attention to the need for more sustained funding for school districts to continue to prioritize mental health care. 

Districts will soon largely be left to their own devices to sustain the additional support that is still very much needed, Young says. We cannot afford to go backwards. Our children and their futures depend on it.

The poll further found that 40% of parents and 50% of educators are worried schools dont have enough staff to address students needs, including mental health; over 80% of parents believe schools should play a role in addressing youth mental health; administrators that say they dont have the information on funding resources for mental health programs exceeds 50%. Forty percent of administrators report a high level of confidence that their school is adequately addressing youth mental health compared to 16% of parents. 

Mental health care in schools lifts the onus off of the parents to address mental health challenges solely at the home, Young says, especially given that kids spend most of their time within the bounds of a classroom. Mental health care that works includes different behavioral interventions for people with various needs. Individual, group, and family therapy can happen during a students school day, for example, Young says. Effective School Solutions partners with districts to integrate this programming directly into the school day. 

It serves as recurring mental health care, like an elective built into the students schedule, he says. 

Being educated on what to look out for is the place to start. Young provides the below acronym, in his own words, to help parents and administrators tell the signs and symptoms of a potential mental health issue: SIGECAPS

• S= Sleep disturbance, such as a student who is falling asleep in class, excessively tired.
• I= Decrease of interest in previous interests or activities.
• G=Excessive feelings of guilt and hopelessness.
• E=Increase or decrease in energy lethargy, which is different from feeling tired.
• C=Decrease in concentration and the ability to remain focused, which can oftentimes reflect in grades dropping. 
• A=Decrease or increase in appetite, such as a change in eating habits
• P= Psychomotor retardation is the slowing down of your mental or physical activities. Students typically see this in the form of slow thinking or slow body movements.
• S= Suicidal thoughts, plans, or intent. Of course this is the most profound of all symptoms where immediate action needs to be taken.

Any of these symptoms alone or paired with another are not uncommon for students to experience, but Young says to monitor when they persist over an extended period of time. Effective School Solutions operates in 9 states to serve over 90 districts, implementing mental health care within schools so students dont need to be taken out of the classroom for care. 

The question is no longer if our students need support, but rather what are the most effective mental health services and how can districts best implement them, Young says. In short, the conversation for school districts has shifted from should we offer these services to how do I implement these services in an impactful way?

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The bonus cuts for the banks 3,000 investment bankers first reported by Semafor and further detailed by the Financial Times  are reportedly deeper than many of the banks Wall Street rivals, stoking fears the bank could face higher staff turnover next year. Bonuses for Goldmans top 400 partners may even be cut by around half as senior bankers bear the brunt of compensation cuts, Semafor reported.

Last year was an exceptional year for the firm, Solomon said on Bloomberg Television, adding that 2022 is a different year and so naturally compensation will be lower.

Economic headwinds

While Goldman Sachs has largely navigated the rising interest rates and lagging economy of the second half of 2022 better than its Wall Street peers, chief executive David Solomon has continuously warned of a worsening economic outlook for next year.

At the Wall Street Journals CEO Council Summit last week, Solomon said he expected the stock markets slide to continue into 2023 and estimated the odds of a recession hitting the U.S. economy at around two-thirds. At Goldman rival Bank of America, CEO Brian Moynihan said at the Goldman Sachs Financial Conference 2022 that the banks research showed negative growth in the first part of 2023, but noted the GDP contraction would be mild.

Speaking at the Goldman financial services conference, Solomon pointed to these economic headwinds as the reason for bonus cuts. Compensation costs are the largest item in Goldmans expense line, he said, and bumpy times ahead for the global economy would mean compensation would decline from last years levels.

Besides the economy, pressure to cut compensation costs at Goldman Sachs can be attributed to Solomons focus on raising the banks stock valuation and appeasing shareholder concerns. In February, the banking giant set the goal for raising its return on equity, a key measure of profitability, to 14% a goal Solomon was 2% shy of as of Sept. 30. Now as money in the market dries up, Goldmans CEO must choose between courting the banks shareholders and rewarding its employees.

Pay cuts for the top

Banks are facing the tricky balancing act of capping total spending while still rewarding its top performers in a competitive market for talentand doing so as the market goes from feast to famine.

While big banks saw a boom in investment activity last year as COVID restrictions eased, the drop in demand after Russias invasion of Ukraine has made many companies more cautious of pursuing corporate deals and raising money on the marketexactly the kind of deals that fill banking coffers.

At Bank of Americas capital market division, total pay is expected to decline by more than a third, the Financial Times reported, with senior managers taking the majority of the hit. The pay of junior staff is less flexible because it is often tied to salary grids and substantial salary increases as they are promoted.

Other Wall Street banks like JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup are all reportedly contemplating cutting their investment banking bonuses by 30%.

Layoffs for the bottom

While top bankers see their bonuses cut as banks try to cut compensation costs, junior bankers will face job losses.

Morgan Stanley announced on Dec. 6 it would be cutting 2% of its global workforce, or about 1,600 employees out of its 80,000-person team. Meanwhile, in September Goldman Sachs embarked on the biggest round of job cuts since the start of the pandemic, eliminating several hundred roles from its 47,000-person company.

Bank of America is bucking the trend by letting natural attrition do most of the headcount reduction. Once employees depart from the company voluntarily, the bank will keep empty positions unfilled, move people around, and retrain them as needed, Moynihan said in a press conference.

Many banks are also returning to the Wall Street ritual of culling its weakest performers. Big Wall Street banks including Citigroup, Barclays, and Goldman Sachs typically cut the bottom 1% to 5% of what they deem are the lowest-performing workers right before bonuses are paid. For most banks, the practice was paused in 2020, after the pandemic sparked a two-year boom in activity and dealmaking.

Goldmans decision on bonuses is likely to be finalized this month before they are announced and paid out in January.

Compensation at Goldman Sachs is determined by the performance of the entire firm, not within each business area. The compensation process is not yet completed so any discussion or forecast on specific numbers is premature, a spokesperson for Goldman Sachs said in a statement.

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While the American public largely viewed the fallout from Prince Harry and Meghan Markles new Netflix docuseries through the lens of race, many British people roundly rejected the accusations of racism that have been leveled against the royal family. Both sides are partially rightand the ways theyre both wrong reveal the cracks in the special relationship. As a recently naturalized Egyptian-British public opinion expert, whose job mainly consists of editing op-eds by Americas entrepreneurs, academics, and top business leaders, Im here to shed light on what is getting lost in translation.

Rationing, not reform

Fortunes contributors and readers are mainly interested in varied but broad themes: keeping the American dream alive, the future of capitalism, and ways to change the world.

In my eight years living in the U.K., another, very British dream has dominated the public conversation: Brexit. As that saga rumbled on, the conversation turned to keeping calm and carrying on amid fiscal austerity in the most British way imaginable.

The business communitys concerns over Brexit were dismissed early on. COVID dealt a second blow to post-Brexit optimism, but former prime minister Boris Johnson summoned the British peoples Blitz spirit.

Concerns over the falling standards of living were equally dismissed, as the nation obsessed with how to make a penny stretch and the media dispensed tips and tricks on how not to freeze to death in your own (very expensive) home.

Tin by tin (or can by can), and one extra layer of warm clothing at a time, we can all make itjust like during the Blitz.

Accepting ones lot

From conservative commentators to everyday people on phone-in radio shows and social media, the central thesis was constant: People have it much worse than Meghan Markle. How dare she complain?

Its not about race, they argued, its Meghans attitude that is problematic.

British journalist and media diversity expert Marcus Ryder, who occasionally graces Fortunes commentary section with his insights, defines it as the difference between diversity and inclusion: Meghans presence can be acceptedbut not her values.

That observation is true regardless of geography. Its why high-performing minority hires often fail or disengage after they work so hard to get into the room at prestigious organizations. 

But what values is the British public taking issue with, exactly?

Concerned radio listeners and TV pundits in the U.K. were crystal clear: Markle is making a fussand many people have it much worse in these difficult times. She should just accept her lot in life (objectively better than most of the rest of the world) and carry on.

On the flip side, emotional tributes to Harrys grandmother, her late majesty Queen Elizabeth II, invariably saluted the monarchs life of service, sense of duty, and lack of self-pity.

Prominent political editor Andrew Marr described the ideological roots of this approach best in a column written weeks before the Queens passing.

According to Marr, the Queen had been a survivor of earlier ways of being. British culture, like other European and Asian cultures, was long based on the subservience of the individual character to the role, or job, required. People were born to be farmers, or leatherworkers, mothers, shopkeepers, clerks or priests. Until modern times this was a caste society. The good life was a life in which you performed the duties and tasks which had fallen to you

If these are qualities, Americans certainly lack them. The pursuit of happiness is a constitutional right on one side of the Atlanticand essentially a crime against God and society on the other.

And while the British Empire undeniably had a dark history, modern-day Britain is a radicallyand raciallydifferent society.

This explains how a Hindu man called Rishi Sunak reached No.10by grasping the class system at a very early age, as seen in a now-famous video where a teenage Sunak explains he doesnt have friends who are working-class.

Perhaps thats the most terrifying thought for the British public about the whole Harry and Meghan predicament.

If the Sussexes can take issue with the privileged position they were handed, what about us? Does it mean we all have to speak up now? God no. The sheer awkwardness would be unbearableand Britains nurses, postal workers, and rail unions are already getting ideas as we head into a Christmas of discontent.

Put your head down, do as youre told, and carry on! And if the economy continues to tank, well layer up and cut some cornersjust like during the Blitz.

Mohamed El Aassar is Fortunes commentary editor.

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