Posted on 04/13/2016 5:44:16 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Poverty in the U.S. is often associated with deprivation, in areas including housing, employment, and education. Now a study co-authored by two MIT researchers has shown, in unprecedented geographic detail, another stark reality: Poor people live shorter lives, too. More precisely, the study shows that in the U.S., the richest 1 percent of men lives 14.6 years longer on average than the poorest 1 percent of men, while among women in those wealth percentiles, the difference is 10.1 years on average.
This eye-opening gap is also growing rapidly: Over roughly the last 15 years, life expectancy increased by 2.34 years for men and 2.91 years for women who are among the top 5 percent of income earners in America, but by just 0.32 and 0.04 years for men and women in the bottom 5 percent of the income tables.
“When we think about income inequality in the United States, we think that low-income Americans can’t afford to purchase the same homes, live in the same neighborhoods, and buy the same goods and services as higher-income Americans,” says Michael Stepner, a PhD candidate in MIT’s Department of Economics. “But the fact that they can on average expect to have 10 or 15 fewer years of life really demonstrates the level of inequality we’ve had in the United States.”
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I suspect there will be a mortality gap between the sick and the healthy ... but I’ll need a grant to really explore this possibility.
Another reason Bernie will say we have to eat the rich?
Could it bee the poor are influenced by bad decisions like addiction and homelessness?
No sweat!
With the failure of Obamacare, devolving into single payer, socialized medicine, we will soon be dying in equal numbers.
New study shows huge mortality gap between living and dead.
Story on page 13.
I think the wealthy will simply leave. Those who can will go elsewhere for medical treatment.
Well, then, I guess that justifies kill off whitey faster. We must have equal outcomes. /sarcasm
I’ve identified a considerable wealth gap between the rich and the poor, too. It’s almost as if it’s related...
No kidding. Somebody did a survey on prom costs a few years ago and discovered that poor people spend more on their kids’ proms than middle class folks. Ya don’t say.
There will always be rich,there will always be poor——and yes,the rich have it easier.
This is worth a study?
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I’ve identified a considerable gap between truth and Obama opening his mouth. Shocking, I know.
There is only ONE “elsewhere” with comparable medicine.....Israel.
Bring back the dead! Make Mexico pay for it.
I think I’ll go to a Bernie or Hillary Rally with a Sign that says “Kill the Evil Rich and take their stuff”.
I’ll probably get high fives from everyone there.
Israel is a welfare paradise.
Every rich person that has ever eaten caviar is dead or will be dead. Therefore, caviar causes death. That's the level upon which this logic is based.
You don't have to be poor to acquire heart disease, diabetes, tobacco use, poor oral care, poor pre-natal and poor post-natal nutrition, excessive alcohol consumption. These can happen to rich AND poor. So INCOME INEQUALITY causes diabetes?? Causes one to consume alcohol?
I noted major differences in life choices between the wealthy and the poor. Wonder if that might be a factor?
Take the extra years from the rich and give them to the poor!!
Must be the carbs and cigarettes.
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