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NY Times: ‘Life in America Is Staggeringly Shorter’
Breitbart ^ | 10/04/2023 | NEIL MUNRO

Posted on 10/04/2023 11:39:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Discarded Americans are dying at younger ages while the federal government fills jobs with young and healthy migrants, according to data provided by the New York Times.

“The America of those without college degrees has been scarred by death and staggeringly shorter life spans,” said the October 3 op-ed by Princeton professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton.

Their op-ed said: Almost two-thirds of American adults do not have college degrees, and they have become increasingly excluded from good jobs, political power and social esteem. As their lives and livelihoods are threatened, their longevity declines.

In the 1970s, American life expectancy grew by about four months each year. By the 1980s, it was similar to life expectancy in other rich countries. Since then, other countries have continued to progress, with life spans increasing by more than two and a half months a year. But the United States has slowly, gradually and then precipitously fallen behind.

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WTH does going to college or not have to do with anything?
1 posted on 10/04/2023 11:39:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s to further the grift of colleges and universities.


2 posted on 10/04/2023 11:42:23 AM PDT by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nothing. Not a damn thing. Folks are dying early because our food is garbage, we eat way too much of it and we have become the laziest population on the face of the planet.


3 posted on 10/04/2023 11:42:56 AM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

for the most part consideration, people with papers, especially ones in education, are some of the most clueless people along with almost total lack of common sense.


4 posted on 10/04/2023 11:47:18 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Right Brother

“It’s to further the grift of colleges and universities.”

Exactly. My first thought WRT any NYT article is “what’s the agenda?”.


5 posted on 10/04/2023 11:48:08 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gender Studies and Grievance Studies are two paths to a long life.


6 posted on 10/04/2023 11:48:53 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, I would like to think that I live my life healthier and happier than a good number of people my age (early 50s). And part of that involves avoiding the media world that most consumers of the NYT inhabit.


7 posted on 10/04/2023 11:49:55 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Americans are suffering the fate of a conquered and colonized failed state. Revolution might be the only cure.


8 posted on 10/04/2023 11:55:59 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (The Forever War is a crime against humanity)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My guess is it’s the increases in drug ODs and homicides that are driving the trend. It also explains it’s uniquely occurring in the USA. There’s no other country that so recently, and dramatically, shifted course to allow itself to be flooded with fetanyl and other lethal drugs. There’s no other country where a “defund the police” movement has mushroomed up overnight. There’s an epidemic in the USA of under 30s dying that no other county has.


9 posted on 10/04/2023 11:56:38 AM PDT by LuxAerterna
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It’s to further the grift of colleges and universities.

My spouse and I both have degrees, but I'm telling you, colleges and universities are the single biggest financial scam in the history of man.

Heck yeah! Sign up to transfer your life's future equity over to the pony-tailed leftist institution.

They steal your future wealth. Mandate experimental medical treatments, prevent free speech on campus, and profess they want diversity, except for anyone who disagrees with them politically.

The university scam needs to die. Unless you are seeking a STEM degree, you should not be feeding this Marxist machine.

10 posted on 10/04/2023 11:57:02 AM PDT by Obadiah
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“...while the federal government fills jobs with young and healthy migrants...”

Hence why I want to see DC get vaporized. It is not an American city. It is run by foreigners loyal to the imperial globalist. /spit


11 posted on 10/04/2023 11:57:08 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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“WTH does going to college or not have to do with anything? “


It has to do with the demographic decline of the college age population and the need for the University Industrial Complex to deal with a shrinking market.


12 posted on 10/04/2023 11:58:42 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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WTH does going to college or not have to do with anything?

Better question: why do we believe any leftist's fake concern over young adults when those same leftists are still loud and proud of their role causing one third of the people under 50 to be aborted away?

It'd be like a loud and proud Nazi in 1945 saying, "you know, I have some concerns for the health of Jews".

13 posted on 10/04/2023 11:59:03 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Is there a statistical difference between the immigrant (especially illegal) population and the native born one? Has there been a significant change in the causes of death, especially drug overdose among the young. One overdose death at 20 can cancel the life expectancy increase of squeezing out one more year of life each for fifty old people.


14 posted on 10/04/2023 12:02:39 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Stevia?


15 posted on 10/04/2023 12:03:56 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When many jobs are requiring a master’s degree to even get an interview, when the job itself is something a high school graduate can do, then it may be a relevant factor.


16 posted on 10/04/2023 12:06:11 PM PDT by Boogieman
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It has to do with disguising an on avg obese welfare class.

Pre scamdemic-our and some Northern/Western Euro countries lifespans were dropping.

This was entirely due to cheaper, easier access to calories aka obesity.


17 posted on 10/04/2023 12:06:21 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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Thing people forget about ‘life-expectancy’ is that its numbers are affected by infant mortality and how infant mortality is reported. A kid in the U.S. who takes a breath outside of the womb is counted as a live birth and if he or she dies before the next breath, that’s going to make average life expectancy shorter. Many/most nations do not count infant deaths the way we do.


18 posted on 10/04/2023 12:10:53 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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Exactly-

One response =govt forced fast food joints to list the calories on the menu-the result?

everyone can guess-the obese welfare recipient goes with most calories/dollar.


19 posted on 10/04/2023 12:13:05 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Vaxxes help......you die.


20 posted on 10/04/2023 12:14:15 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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