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Young White America Is Dying of Despair
breitbart ^ | JOHN CARNEY

Posted on 04/20/2017 7:33:27 AM PDT by davikkm

he death of the American Dream may be killing many young white Americans. The death rates for young Americans increased substantially from 1999 to 2014, according to a recent report in The Lancet. Much of that increase was driven by the increase in mortality of white women aged 25 to 35. On average, 25-year old white women experienced an increased death rate of 3% per year from 1999 to 2014, according to the report. Twenty-five-year-old men had an increase annual mortality increase of 1.9%.

All other ethnic groups, apart from Native Americans, experienced a decline in mortality rates.

Bloomberg News has a long feature look at this disturbing trend.

The fates of the less-educated and those who graduate from universities diverge in dire ways. Middle-aged white Americans without four-year degrees are at increasing risk of dying, a well-documented trend driven not only by drug use but also by alcoholism, suicide, and slowing progress against heart disease and cancer. Outcomes may worsen further as millennials—Johnson’s generation—grow older.

“America is not a great place for people with only a high school degree, and I don’t think that’s going to get better anytime soon,” said Angus Deaton, a Nobel Prize-winning Princeton University economist.

It’s too soon to tell whether millennials will die at higher rates in middle age than today’s 45- to 54-year-olds, said Anne Case, a Princeton economist who identified the “deaths of despair” trend with Deaton, her spouse and co-author. But in stories like Johnson’s, there are reasons to worry.

In other words, there’s reason to suspect that this is just the beginning.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: america; millennials; substanceabuse; trends; white; whites; young
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To: davikkm

I’m not surprised the suicide rate among white millenials has risen. Just look at all of the negative, leftist indoctrination they’re subjected to, throughout their youth.

Whitey is evil. Whitney enslaved the world. Whitey stole everybody’s land. Whiey stole everyone’s wealth. Whitey is the great oppressor. Whitey poisoned the planet. Whitey is greedy and privileged, etcetera, ad infinitum.

Imagine having that destructive message drilled into your head from the day you’re born. You might feel a bit of despair, too.

And don’t forget that the same message has been drilled into the minds of black, brown, olive, and red kids’, as well.


21 posted on 04/20/2017 8:53:29 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: momincombatboots

She is doing more than pot... it is either pills, heroin or meth. Find out which one... but you will have to separate her from her peers and get her into treatment.

They are dealing to support their habit and taking risks to support it as well.

If she says otherwise she is lying to you.


22 posted on 04/20/2017 9:02:16 AM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: davikkm

Weed + stupidity + refuse adulthood = death of the American Dream


23 posted on 04/20/2017 9:16:23 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: momincombatboots

Teen Challenge... No cost long term Christian rehab throughout the country... they gave my daughter a fighting chance... prayers...


24 posted on 04/20/2017 9:24:17 AM PDT by PigRigger
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To: Right Brother

I know a few Plumbers that make more Money than I did when I was a Corporate Vice President.

If I had it to do over again, I would have gone to Trade School.


25 posted on 04/20/2017 9:26:50 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: davikkm
Back in the day, women took pride in their appearance and care for their bodies.

Now that we've got a generation of Americans raised on Hollywood's definition of morality and ethics, females are doing all the things that were killing men in the first place.

And we're surprised that more women are dying earlier than before?

26 posted on 04/20/2017 9:28:11 AM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: davikkm

Young people are actively discouraged from getting married and starting a family. At some point of maturity, most people discover that living only for one’s self is rather empty and meaningless.


27 posted on 04/20/2017 9:30:09 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: davikkm

bkmk


28 posted on 04/20/2017 9:49:42 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: PigRigger

Thanks for the encouragement. I will see if someone can reach out to her. Is there any particular contact information?


29 posted on 04/22/2017 6:06:28 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Gas attacks. Substitute Sadam for Assad and Iraq for Syria? How many American lives do you commit)
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To: davikkm

There are few jobs and the few that exist go to illegal aliens or even green card holders who will work for next to nothing. The flood of immigrants, combined with the flood of drugs, is literally killing off white Americans. And the entertainment industry glorifies drugs and degeneracy to help things along. And the educational system teaches whites to hate themselves. It’s a well-organized effort to destroy this country so that leftist godless degenerate super rich elites are forever in control.


30 posted on 04/22/2017 6:39:10 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: PigRigger

+1 417-581-2181

They can direct you to closet one by you...

God bless... Prayers for your family.


31 posted on 04/22/2017 2:37:15 PM PDT by PigRigger
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To: momincombatboots

+1 417-581-2181
They can direct you to the nearest to you...

God bless... Prayers for your family.


32 posted on 04/22/2017 2:38:52 PM PDT by PigRigger
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To: momincombatboots

If you need to speak.... Private message me and I will give you my phone number...

Have faith, the fight ain’t over...


33 posted on 04/22/2017 2:45:57 PM PDT by PigRigger
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