Posted on 09/09/2013 4:38:03 AM PDT by markomalley
While most Americans can look forward to living longer than ever, that’s not the case for white women who didn’t graduate from high school. Their life expectancy has actually dropped by five years — from 78 years in 1990 to 73 in 2008.
More heartening is the finding that black women without a high school diploma saw their life expectancy increase by a year from 73 to 74. In fact, they can now expect to live a year longer than their white counterparts.
The findings are from a study led by S. Jay Olshansky, a longevity researcher at the University of Illinois in Chicago, that looked at the disparities in life expectancy due to gender, race and education.
Published a year ago in the journal “Health Affairs” and funded by the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society, the research is making headlines again after a poignant and provocative piece in “The American Prospect” this week titled, “What’s Killing Poor White Women?”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I’m picturing meth beauties, for some reason.
Yeah I’m betting the subset of white women who don’t graduate from high school has a higher percentage of substance and mental health issues then for black women who don’t.
Yep, white women who don’t graduate from high school are farther out on the wrong end of the distribution tail than are black women.
Meth was my first thought, too!
“What’s Killing Poor White Women?”
Have you SEEN those Walmart pictures?
That’s great news for racial equity - we are finally bringing everyone down to the lowest common denominator!
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This is not equality. What it seems to be saying is that noneducated black women are meth deprived.
There should be a drive for women’s meth equality
LOL Or any episode of Toddlers and Tiara’s! waddle waddle
Probably because the uneducated white woman has to work hard to stay alive while the uneducated black woman merely has to stick out her hand and the gubmint will provide. (”Wha, ya wan me to werk? That’s racist.)
And what is the percentage of white women who don’t graduate from high school compared to black women? Agree the subset may be much lower to make cparisons less meaningful
And education may be a stronger variable than race.
Now this is how equality works under Socialism. Everyone is equally poor and miserable.
Drugs
Innumeracy (”mathematical illiteracy”) on the part of the Washington Post again. 70-80 years ago, compulsory education became the norm. So among the people born 70-80 years ago, the “uneducated” has gone from being a fairly normal group to being one that represents outliers.
Innumeracy (”mathematical illiteracy”) on the part of the Washington Post again. 70-80 years ago, compulsory education became the norm. So among the people born 70-80 years ago, the “uneducated” has gone from being a fairly normal group to being one that represents outliers.
If anyone wants to be alarmed on behalf of blacks, it can be that 70-80 years ago, education was still the exception. Of course, that was 70-80 years ago...
Change you can believe in.
White trash in America is on the rise
it’s awful
but...it ain’t gonna stay white for much longer
That’s because uneducated white wimmin are hooking up with uneducated black men.
Women who were 78 in 1990 were born in 1912. A lot of white women born then did not finish high school, including my Grandmothers who both lived into their 80’s. It was a norm rather than an exception. There were probably a much larger group of women in that pool who took care of themselves.
Eighteen years later and post World-War II, high school completion for the population was much higher, leaving a larger pool of the mentally disabled and ill who don’t live as long. The black women, however, weren’t educated at the same rate.
I bet it evens out in 20 years as the pool for black women who do not finish high school shrinks.
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