Tag: deaths of despair

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Long before COVID-19 upended our world, the lives of lower-paid, less-educated workers had already been coming apart. “It’s the other epidemic, but it’s an epidemic that’s been occurring under the radar for a long time,” Anne Case said in her keynote address for the annual meeting of the Retirement and Disability Research Consortium, which was…

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Researchers debate whether the cause is primarily “despair” or the availability of drugs. A fascinating debate is occurring about the reason for the increase in drug-related deaths and the decline in life expectancy since 1999 among 45-54 year old non-Hispanic whites, observed by Anne Case and Angus Deaton.  The pattern is extraordinary since previously lif…