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For whites across America, deaths of despair are rising
« on: March 24, 2017, 02:23:58 pm »
For whites across America, deaths of despair are rising
By Aimee Picchi
CBS News via MSN
March 25, 2017

For many white Americans without a college degree, life in America has devolved in a few short decades from one that offered ample economic opportunity into a socioeconomic dead end.

That’s according to new research from Princeton economists Anne Case and Nobel Prize-winner Angus Deaton, who grabbed headlines in 2015 with their finding that the death rate for middle-aged white Americans had sharply risen. The new research adds color to their earlier findings, helping to explain what’s driving mortality rates for less educated whites beyond that of blacks and their counterparts in other developed countries. 



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