[Peace-discuss] "Deaths of Despair"

[Szoke, Ron]

How Working-Class Life Is Killing Americans, in Charts
By David Leonhardt and Stuart A. Thompson
NYT  MARCH 6, 2020
   When the economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton first published their research on “deaths of despair” five years ago, they focused on middle-aged whites. So many white working-class Americans in their 40s and 50s were dying of suicide, alcoholism and drug abuse that the overall mortality rate for the age group was no longer falling – a rare and shocking pattern in a modern society.
    But as Case and Deaton continued digging into the data, it became clear that the grim trends didn’t apply only to middle-aged whites. Up and down the age spectrum, deaths of despair have been surging for people without a four-year college degree:  . . . 
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Thanks to Sandy Camargo for the reference.    — RSz.