Signs of Our Impending Demise

While affirmative action beneficiaries such as Sistine Chapel will no doubt consider things like this to be payback, the fact that the descendants of the very men who founded this country are facing "deaths of despair" should alarm all those who wish health and happiness among their fellow Americans.

Is Economic Despair What's Killing Middle-Aged White Americans?

Two Princeton economists elaborate on their work exploring rising mortality rates among certain demographics.

Two years ago, the Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton published an alarming revelation: Middle-aged white Americans without a college degree were dying in greater numbers, even as people in other developed countries were living longer. The husband-and-wife team argued, in a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that these white Americans are facing“deaths of despair”—suicide, overdoses from alcohol and drug, and alcohol-related liver disease.

The paper caused a stir in academic circles and in the media, and has remained in the public discourse following Donald Trump’s win partly on the strength of his support from these same middle-aged white Americans (the alive ones, to be clear). The paper, however, couldn’t answer the question everyone had: Why was this demographic in particular struggling? It couldn’t be purely the economic pain they faced in the wake of globalization; after all, European countries are also affected by globalization, and their residents are getting healthier and living longer. And non-whites in the U.S. are living longer than they used to as well, and they are subject to the same economic forces as middle-age whites and are struggling, at least in economic terms, even more.

As I wrote yesterday, the poor health of middle-aged white Americans is having an impact on the labor force. Men aren’t working or looking for jobs because they’re sick, on pain pills, or abusing alcohol or drugs, research suggests. Just why they’re so sick was not something that Case and Deaton elaborated on in their 2015 paper.

Now, in a new paper, the economists explore why this demographic is so unhealthy. They conclude it has something to do with a lifetime of eroding economic opportunities. This may seem like a circular argument, when put together with previous work: Middle-aged Americans aren’t working because they’re sick, and middle-aged Americans are sick because they’re not working. But Case and Deaton argue that it’s not just poor job opportunities that are affecting this demographic, but rather, that these economic misfortunes build up and bleed into other segments of people’s lives, like marriage and mental health. This drives them to alcoholism, drug abuse, and even suicide, they say, in a new paper released Thursday in advance of a conference, the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity.

“As the labor market turns against them, and the kinds of jobs they find get worse and worse for people without a college degree, that affects them in other ways too,” Deaton told me.

What differentiates Case and Deaton’s paper is this idea that as people get older and their fates deviate more and more from those of their parents, they struggle to keep their lives together. The very act of doing worse than their parents’ generation—what Case and Deaton call “cumulative disadvantage”—is killing them.

full story:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business...espair/520473/

Don't get too excited Sistine Chapel, everyone in my family is doing great. Plenty of money in the trusts for everyone, assuming, of course, the kids don't marry a [prohibited word].

Obama achieved one of his goals. For now. But that's why the Rust Belt put Trump in the WH.

While affirmative action beneficiaries such as Sistine Chapel will no doubt consider things like this to be payback, the fact that the descendants of the very men who founded this country are facing "deaths of despair" should alarm all those who wish health and happiness among their fellow Americans.

Is Economic Despair What's Killing Middle-Aged White Americans?

Two Princeton economists elaborate on their work exploring rising mortality rates among certain demographics.

Two years ago, the Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton published an alarming revelation: Middle-aged white Americans without a college degree were dying in greater numbers, even as people in other developed countries were living longer. The husband-and-wife team argued, in a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that these white Americans are facing“deaths of despair”—suicide, overdoses from alcohol and drug, and alcohol-related liver disease.

The paper caused a stir in academic circles and in the media, and has remained in the public discourse following Donald Trump’s win partly on the strength of his support from these same middle-aged white Americans (the alive ones, to be clear). The paper, however, couldn’t answer the question everyone had: Why was this demographic in particular struggling? It couldn’t be purely the economic pain they faced in the wake of globalization; after all, European countries are also affected by globalization, and their residents are getting healthier and living longer. And non-whites in the U.S. are living longer than they used to as well, and they are subject to the same economic forces as middle-age whites and are struggling, at least in economic terms, even more.

As I wrote yesterday, the poor health of middle-aged white Americans is having an impact on the labor force. Men aren’t working or looking for jobs because they’re sick, on pain pills, or abusing alcohol or drugs, research suggests. Just why they’re so sick was not something that Case and Deaton elaborated on in their 2015 paper.

Now, in a new paper, the economists explore why this demographic is so unhealthy. They conclude it has something to do with a lifetime of eroding economic opportunities. This may seem like a circular argument, when put together with previous work: Middle-aged Americans aren’t working because they’re sick, and middle-aged Americans are sick because they’re not working. But Case and Deaton argue that it’s not just poor job opportunities that are affecting this demographic, but rather, that these economic misfortunes build up and bleed into other segments of people’s lives, like marriage and mental health. This drives them to alcoholism, drug abuse, and even suicide, they say, in a new paper released Thursday in advance of a conference, the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity.

“As the labor market turns against them, and the kinds of jobs they find get worse and worse for people without a college degree, that affects them in other ways too,” Deaton told me.

What differentiates Case and Deaton’s paper is this idea that as people get older and their fates deviate more and more from those of their parents, they struggle to keep their lives together. The very act of doing worse than their parents’ generation—what Case and Deaton call “cumulative disadvantage”—is killing them.

full story:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business...espair/520473/

Don't get too excited Sistine Chapel, everyone in my family is doing great. Plenty of money in the trusts for everyone, assuming, of course, the kids don't marry a [prohibited word]. Originally Posted by DSK

Thank you for pointing out the under-educating are dying young. If they had jobs they would have health insurance.
And now someone who supposedly has a trust wants working Americans to pay for the follies of trump's base. They voted for someone who told them exactly what wanted to hear.

Now we have the seeming voice of reason from the openly racist trust fund poltroon who wants to split up the United States.
A douche-bag who has attributed all of the symptoms of the under-educated to liberals time and time again.

And the racist piece of shit concluded with there would be plenty of money for his kids who are as stupid and under-educated as there sperm donor unless they married....a what you cocksucker? What couldn't the moneyless fuck say?

Who actually gives a shit.

While affirmative action beneficiaries such as Sistine Chapel will no doubt consider things like this to be payback, the fact that the descendants of the very men who founded this country are facing "deaths of despair" should alarm all those who wish health and happiness among their fellow Americans.

Is Economic Despair What's Killing Middle-Aged White Americans?

Two Princeton economists elaborate on their work exploring rising mortality rates among certain demographics.

Two years ago, the Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton published an alarming revelation: Middle-aged white Americans without a college degree were dying in greater numbers, even as people in other developed countries were living longer. The husband-and-wife team argued, in a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that these white Americans are facing“deaths of despair”—suicide, overdoses from alcohol and drug, and alcohol-related liver disease.

The paper caused a stir in academic circles and in the media, and has remained in the public discourse following Donald Trump’s win partly on the strength of his support from these same middle-aged white Americans (the alive ones, to be clear). The paper, however, couldn’t answer the question everyone had: Why was this demographic in particular struggling? It couldn’t be purely the economic pain they faced in the wake of globalization; after all, European countries are also affected by globalization, and their residents are getting healthier and living longer. And non-whites in the U.S. are living longer than they used to as well, and they are subject to the same economic forces as middle-age whites and are struggling, at least in economic terms, even more.

As I wrote yesterday, the poor health of middle-aged white Americans is having an impact on the labor force. Men aren’t working or looking for jobs because they’re sick, on pain pills, or abusing alcohol or drugs, research suggests. Just why they’re so sick was not something that Case and Deaton elaborated on in their 2015 paper.

Now, in a new paper, the economists explore why this demographic is so unhealthy. They conclude it has something to do with a lifetime of eroding economic opportunities. This may seem like a circular argument, when put together with previous work: Middle-aged Americans aren’t working because they’re sick, and middle-aged Americans are sick because they’re not working. But Case and Deaton argue that it’s not just poor job opportunities that are affecting this demographic, but rather, that these economic misfortunes build up and bleed into other segments of people’s lives, like marriage and mental health. This drives them to alcoholism, drug abuse, and even suicide, they say, in a new paper released Thursday in advance of a conference, the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity.

“As the labor market turns against them, and the kinds of jobs they find get worse and worse for people without a college degree, that affects them in other ways too,” Deaton told me.

What differentiates Case and Deaton’s paper is this idea that as people get older and their fates deviate more and more from those of their parents, they struggle to keep their lives together. The very act of doing worse than their parents’ generation—what Case and Deaton call “cumulative disadvantage”—is killing them.

full story:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business...espair/520473/

Don't get too excited Sistine Chapel, everyone in my family is doing great. Plenty of money in the trusts for everyone, assuming, of course, the kids don't marry a [prohibited word]. Originally Posted by DSK

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“As the labor market turns against them, and the kinds of jobs they find get worse and worse for people without a college degree, that affects them in other ways too,” Deaton told me.

What differentiates Case and Deaton’s paper is this idea that as people get older and their fates deviate more and more from those of their parents, they struggle to keep their lives together. The very act of doing worse than their parents’ generation—what Case and Deaton call “cumulative disadvantage”—is killing them.

full story:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business...espair/520473/

Don't get too excited Sistine Chapel, everyone in my family is doing great. Plenty of money in the trusts for everyone, assuming, of course, the kids don't marry a [prohibited word]. Originally Posted by DSK

if your mama ever get tired of your daddy just eating her pussy and would like to finally orgasm for the first time in her life...tell her you know a young negro named SC that will beat her wrinkled pussy up. and if your daddy wanna watch thats cool too.

And you think trump is going to get your job back for you?
Your job spraying coating on the inside of CRTs for TVs is never coming back.

Good thing your mom has a job.

Obama achieved one of his goals. For now. But that's why the Rust Belt put Trump in the WH. Originally Posted by bambino

if your mama ever get tired of your daddy just eating her pussy and would like to finally orgasm for the first time in her life...tell her you know a young negro named SC that will beat her wrinkled pussy up. and if your daddy wanna watch thats cool too. Originally Posted by Sistine Chapel

I was in South Dallas by the Zoo one time and this old and ugly black hooker offered me a blow job for 5 bucks.

I told your mama no thanks.

Thank you for pointing out the "under-educating" are dying young. If they had jobs they would have health insurance.
And now someone who supposedly has a trust wants working Americans to pay for the follies of trump's base. They voted for someone who told them exactly what wanted to hear.

Now we have the seeming voice of reason from the openly racist trust fund poltroon who wants to split up the United States.
A douche-bag who has attributed all of the symptoms of the under-educated to liberals time and time again.

And the racist piece of shit concluded with there would be plenty of money for his kids who are as stupid and under-educated as there sperm donor unless they married....a what you cocksucker? What couldn't the moneyless fuck say?

Who actually gives a shit. Originally Posted by Munchmasterman

You really cannot refute the central premise, and your fellow Americans are dying for reasons you do not care to change.

That is why I advocate the peaceful dissolution of our once great nation. We do not have goodwill and love amoungst ourselves, just endless hateful rancor.

If the current America is the best we can do, we should all die of shame.

Especially cocksucking [prohibited word] loving faggots like you.

Obama achieved one of his goals. For now. But that's why the Rust Belt put Trump in the WH. Originally Posted by bambino

The only rust belt you can speak for is the big red ring around your equator, EATLER! If you'd learn to control your sweating, lardass, you might be able to get back into those Dickies!

Thanks again, JL, for your never ending fight for white supremacy.

You really cannot refute the central premise, and your fellow Americans are dying for reasons you do not care to change.

That is why I advocate the peaceful dissolution of our once great nation. We do not have goodwill and love amoungst ourselves, just endless hateful rancor.

If the current America is the best we can do, we should all die of shame.

Especially cocksucking [prohibited word] loving faggots like you. Originally Posted by DSK

Well said.

The only rust belt you can speak for is the big red ring around your equator, EATLER! If you'd learn to control your sweating, lardass, you might be able to get back into those Dickies!

Thanks again, JL, for your never ending fight for white supremacy.

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

ANOTHER ASWIPE SELFIE

ANOTHER ASWIPE SELFIE Originally Posted by bambino

He is an ugly motherfucker!

Especially cocksucking [prohibited word] loving faggots like you. Originally Posted by DSK

Do you use the prohibited word in context in your "bakery" JL?

What IS the "prohibited word" that you use in your ravings day in and day out?

Do you think the prohibition of that word in any way shields the meaning of your racist epithets any way?

So you're using band aids instead of sparkly pasties ... but your language is no less offensive in intent than if you were using the ONE word this forum prohibits.

You're a fucking disgrace to humanity. And your people.

Fuck you, faggot.

He is an ugly motherfucker! Originally Posted by DSK