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AN EPIDEMIC OF CHRONIC ILLNESS IS KILLING US TOO SOON – WaPost

“This phenomenon is exacerbated by the country’s economic, political and racial divides. America is increasingly a country of haves and have-nots, measured not just by bank accounts and property values but also by vital signs and grave markers. Dying prematurely, The Post found, has become the most telling measure of the nation’s growing inequality…

“Wealth inequality in America is growing…The Post found that the death gap — the difference in life expectancy between affluent and impoverished communities — has been widening many times faster. In the early 1980s, people in the poorest communities were 9 percent more likely to die each year, but the gap grew to 49 percent in the past decade and widened to 61 percent when covid struck.”

Chronic diseases take a toll on U.S. life expectancy – UPI

Related CCSE work:

Raising Social Security’s retirement age would slam low-wage workers yet again – op-ed

Low-income states and those with older populations would be impacted the most.

A Widening Gap in Life Expectancy Makes Raising Social Security’s Retirement Age a Particularly Bad Deal for Low-Wage Earners – Karl Polzer/Society of Actuaries report

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