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9/20/12, "Life Spans Shrink for Least-Educated Whites in the U.S.," NY Times, S. Tavernise
"For generations of Americans, it was a given that children would live
longer than their parents. But there is now mounting evidence that this
enduring trend has reversed itself for the country’s least-educated
whites, an increasingly troubled group whose life expectancy has fallen
by four years since 1990. ...
Four studies in recent years identified modest
declines, but a new one that looks separately at Americans lacking a
high school diploma found disturbingly sharp drops in life expectancy
for whites in this group. Experts not involved in the new research said
its findings were persuasive....
Some
cautioned that the results could be overstated because Americans without
a high school diploma — about 12 percent of the population, down from
about 22 percent in 1990, according to the Census Bureau — were a
shrinking group that was now more likely to be disadvantaged in ways
besides education, compared with past generations."...via Instapundit
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