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Middle-age white Americans with limited education are increasingly dying younger, on average, than other middle-age U.S. adults, a trend driven by their dwindling economic opportunities, research by two Princeton University economists has found.
The economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, argue in a paper released Thursday that the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with only high school diplomas or less has triggered broad problems for this group. They are more likely than their college-educated counterparts, for example, to be unemployed, unmarried or afflicted with poor health.
"This is a story of the collapse of the white working class," Deaton said in an interview. "The labor market has very much turned against them."
Those dynamics helped fuel the rise of President Donald Trump, who won widespread support among whites with only a high school diploma. Yet Deaton said his policies are unlikely to reverse these trends, particularly the health care legislation now before the House that Trump is championing. That bill would lead to higher premiums for older Americans, the Congressional Budget Office has found.
"The policies that you see, seem almost perfectly designed to hurt the very people who voted for him," Deaton said.
Case and Deaton's paper, issued by the Brookings Institution, follows up on research they released in 2015 that first documented a sharp increase in mortality among middle-aged whites.
Since 1999, white men and women ages 45 through 54 have endured a sharp increase in "deaths of despair," Case and Deaton found in their earlier work. These include suicides, drug overdoses, and alcohol-related deaths such as liver failure.
In the paper released Thursday, Case and Deaton draw a clearer relationship between rising death rates and changes in the job market since the 1970s. They find that men without college degrees are less likely to receive rising incomes over time, a trend "consistent with men moving to lower and lower skilled jobs."
Other research has found that Americans with only high school diplomas are less likely to get married or purchase a home and more likely to get divorced if they do marry.
"It's not just their careers that have gone down the tubes, but their marriage prospects, their ability to raise children," said Deaton, who won the Nobel prize in economics in 2015 for his long-standing work on solutions to poverty. "That's the kind of thing that can lead people to despair."
It's not entirely clear why these trends have affected whites much more than they have African-Americans or Hispanics, whose death rates are improving.
Case and Deaton note that many Hispanics are "markedly better off" than parents or grandparents who were born abroad, enabling a greater sense of optimism. African-Americans, they add, may have become more resilient to economic challenges given their long-standing disadvantages in the job market.
The data is clear, though: In 1999, the death rate for high school-educated whites ages 50 through 54 was 30 percent lower than the death rate for all African-Americans in that age group. By 2015, it was 30 percent higher.
The educational split is also growing. Even while the death rate for whites without a college degree is rising, the rate for whites who are college graduates is falling, Case and Deaton found.
The trends cut across diverse regions of the country, the researchers found. While the worst-hit spots include Appalachian states such as West Virginia and Kentucky, they also include such areas as Maine, Baltimore and eastern Washington state. The patterns are evident in rural sections and smaller cities as well as in some large metro areas, the research found.
Americans with less education are also faring much worse when compared with adults in other countries, Case and Deaton concluded. Death rates in Europe for people with limited education are falling -- and in most countries, they're falling faster than death rates for those with more education.
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hehehe...
why don't they stop being lazy and worrying about drugs and get out an try to find work.
they just want to libe off the govt sn have babies...
lol
funny how things change.
for y'all tight no humor ? ....this is sarcasm -
They need to take responsibility for their own actions and stop blaming others for their problems. Pull yourself up by the bootstrap.
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Life's a ? . Then you die.
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they finally let you back. smmfh
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Life's a ? . Then you die.
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Chickens coming home to roost.
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These young ? venturing into that realm. -
The declining exotic Trumpanzee population are severely in danger.
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Throw in the fact that these folks don't feel the need to get certified in a field that is in demand (IT certs, nursing, etc) because they feel that their manufacturing job that they were laid off from "is supposed" to come back.
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Made this thread on my old account less than a year ago. RIP BTW lmao
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Let'em burn
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this is whay happens when you level the playing field
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2stepz_ahead wrote: »
lol @ "sea of despair" that sea was made from white tears! -
they will blame it on nuggas somehow.........and not on themselves being some lazy ?
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? is comedy. I love how media always try to garner sympathy with their stories about heroine addiction. Where tf was that sympathy for black folks in the 80s?
? you and that monkey on your back Paul -
White people tears...
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Soooo....is there an estimated extinction date?