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It's not even mostly chronic low income. Look at Figure 3 in this paper https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2104684118 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.
by GlibMonkeyDeath 3y ago
It's not even mostly chronic low income. Look at Figure 3 in this paper
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2104684118 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2104684118
Across all income levels, USA lags Europe. In 1990, the wealthiest white Americans had the same deaths/1000 Age 20-64 as Europeans, but a gap has opened up across ALL income levels since then.
The gap does get larger as poverty increases, but it doesn't explain why all income levels are worse than Europe.
- GlibMonkeyDeath 3y agoActually, let me correct myself - if you look at alpha in Fig 3 (the intercept at 0 poverty, or the very wealthiest) the death rate continues to drop in absolute terms for everyone - the death rate is only increasing in absolute terms among white Americans in the higher poverty index range (so the slope or beta is increasing with poverty as time goes on.) So poverty.