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Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds
NYT ^ | 11/02/2015 | Gina Kolata

Posted on 11/02/2015 6:35:08 PM PST by ruination

Something startling is happening to middle-aged white Americans. Unlike every other age group, unlike every other racial and ethnic group, unlike their counterparts in other rich countries, death rates in this group have been rising, not falling.

That finding was reported Monday by two Princeton economists, Angus Deaton, who last month won the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, and Anne Case. Analyzing health and mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and from other sources, they concluded that rising annual death rates among this group are being driven not by the big killers like heart disease and diabetes but by an epidemic of suicides and afflictions stemming from substance abuse: alcoholic liver disease and overdoses of heroin and prescription opioids.

The analysis by Dr. Deaton and Dr. Case may offer the most rigorous evidence to date of both the causes and implications of a development that has been puzzling demographers in recent years: the declining health and fortunes of poorly educated American whites. In middle age, they are dying at such a high rate that they are increasing the death rate for the entire group of middle-aged white Americans, Dr. Deaton and Dr. Case found.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alcohol; amnesty; drugs; nojobs; suicide; whites
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To: ruination

What a shocker. Toxic chemicals are bad for your health.


101 posted on 11/02/2015 8:18:38 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Twink
How can you fight it when you aren’t even in the arena?

Absolutely. I've been saying that we need to move into the entertainment and news industries, and provide balance to an arena that is wholly dominated by the left.

We need our own broadcast networks, etc.

And you are right, we need to break up liberal dominance of the education system(s).

102 posted on 11/02/2015 8:21:05 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Chode

Exactly... is this one yours (original)?


103 posted on 11/02/2015 8:23:34 PM PST by Bikkuri ((...))
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To: DiogenesLamp

“We’ve spent 21 trillion on the “War on Poverty” which is in fact, a Democrat vote farming scheme which is doing nothing other than increasing poverty, and the nation actually owes something like 100 trillion in unfunded liabilities.”

Yep and the same for the War on Drugs. And the War on Terrorism.

Johnson’s War on Poverty, the Great Society, Immigration are all Democrat vote farming.


104 posted on 11/02/2015 8:32:21 PM PST by Twink
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To: ruination

The producer class is failing under the whip of coerced servitude to the entitled consumer class.


105 posted on 11/02/2015 8:33:55 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: ruination

I know people amongst my fairly small circle of friends who are feeling the pinch, and the subject of suicide has come up in casual conversation. Older people are more prone to depression. If you know one, hug them and tell them you love them.


106 posted on 11/02/2015 8:44:24 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Bikkuri
i wish... 8^)
107 posted on 11/02/2015 8:47:18 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: DiogenesLamp; Eaker; Jim Robinson

Can I please change my screen name?

At first, I was just gonna say “nope” as an answer to your question.

Not everyone is/was familiar with urban/homosexual meanings to things.

It’s a long story, involving innocent kids who gave a name to their baby sister almost 50 years ago. And I chose it as a screenname because I couldn’t think of another one.

It saddens me that a wonderful childhood nickname that I cherish is degraded in this way. We’ve really allowed them to change our language. Sad. Just like the rainbow isn’t just a rainbow anymore.

Eaker! 8 years. Builds character...or something. lol


108 posted on 11/02/2015 8:48:54 PM PST by Twink
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To: DiogenesLamp

Yes. We used to be a presence. Now, nothing. Then we wonder why we are losing.


109 posted on 11/02/2015 8:50:37 PM PST by Twink
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To: ruination

get educated; don’t do drugs, alcohol or smoke. You will be fine.


110 posted on 11/02/2015 8:52:12 PM PST by Eternal_Bear
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To: Twink

Our investment in my boys’ college education will pay off.

Neither of my sons will ever complain that their being white males will hinder their success.


111 posted on 11/02/2015 8:56:09 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: DiogenesLamp

Yes.

Drugs in the US was used as the Chief means to do it.


112 posted on 11/02/2015 10:18:27 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: Twink

“I still think our downfall happened when conservatives abandoned our Institutions.”

You are right to look at education.

But conservatives didn’t abandon it, they were turned.

By inundation of drugs in that class of people who do education.


113 posted on 11/02/2015 10:22:33 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: ruination
The mortality rate for whites 45 to 54 years old with no more than a high school education increased by 134 deaths per 100,000 people from 1999 to 2014.

I'm not surprised. This age group, mostly whites, have been most affected by the massive increases of imported visa workers.

1999 was the year the H1B visa cap was increased from 63,000 to 193,000 (with cap exemptions for visa workers being hired by government, academia, and government contractors; meaning those were not counted). The official cap was lowered after three years, but the numbers kept increasing. Other types of visas were also expanded, such that during those years, 140,000 visa workers per month, 1.68 Million visa workers per year, were coming into the USA to displace American citizens from their jobs.

In that 15 years, 25.2 Million visa workers of all types were imported to displace that many American citizens in all sectors of the economy.

Like many of us have said, importing visa workers is a form of genocide.

114 posted on 11/02/2015 10:56:37 PM PST by meadsjn
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To: DiogenesLamp
We used to be made of sterner stuff.

I don't think that provides any explanation. A lot of this group are most certainly veterans, who tend to be white and not have high school diplomas and have lower incomes.

The skyrocketing rate is also affecting the 45-54 age group the worst. I think it'd be a stretch to say they're made of sterner stuff than the baby boomer demographic.
115 posted on 11/02/2015 11:25:17 PM PST by ruination
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To: batterycommander

I hear you. Keep on plugging.


116 posted on 11/02/2015 11:40:31 PM PST by Gritty (If you are intolerant, a racist or bigot (against Muslims) then find another state-Gov. Dayton, D-MN)
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To: ruination

Great

A quicker way to a non white nation and an end to white privilege

Thank God


117 posted on 11/03/2015 12:00:48 AM PST by wardaddy (I want to destroy the GOPe and beltway elite as much as defeat the Democrats)
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To: meadsjn
I completely agree. Look at the immigrant population change between the time these people were born and today. The society into which these people (myself included) were born immediately began vanishing. All for what? Nothing!

Note that this graph doesn't even include 2nd generation or later immigrants. Just the very first.
118 posted on 11/03/2015 12:19:19 AM PST by ruination
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To: Wiser now
The cure for this will be a 'living wage' and a single payer health care system. Just you watch.

Plus a million additional immigrants per year to make up for the white man's shortcomings. Can't afford the wall now, either!
119 posted on 11/03/2015 12:29:38 AM PST by ruination
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To: Will88

Bingo. Pretty simple really. Depression kills. We aren’t made to be idle.


120 posted on 11/03/2015 12:56:55 AM PST by smaug6 (We can't afford to be innocent!! Stand up and face the enemy.)
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