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Red Oak

(697 posts) Fri Feb 12, 2016, 05:08 PM Feb 2016

Disparity in Life Spans of the Rich and the Poor Is Growing

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/13/health/disparity-in-life-spans-of-the-rich-and-the-poor-is-growing.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Sabrina Travernise, New York Times

"The poor are losing ground not only in income, but also in years of life, the most basic measure of well-being. In the early 1970s, a 60-year-old man in the top half of the earnings ladder could expect to live 1.2 years longer than a man of the same age in the bottom half, according to an analysis by the Social Security Administration. Fast-forward to 2001, and he could expect to live 5.8 years longer than his poorer counterpart."

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Disparity in Life Spans of the Rich and the Poor Is Growing (Original Post) Red Oak Feb 2016 OP

There was a fellow named James Lardner who conducted a study in the 1990s showing 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #1

Thanks for the information... haikugal Feb 2016 #2

99th_Monkey

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1. There was a fellow named James Lardner who conducted a study in the 1990s showing

Reply to Red Oak (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 05:35 PM

Feb 2016

this same thing... for some strange reason, his research never really got on the radar of M$M,
and he faded into relative obscurity, and I have not been able to find the results of his research
online. I don't know if it was scrubbed, or if he voluntarily took it all down, or what.

He did start up a low-profile non-profit to continue raising the issue of income inequality, and
wrote an oft quoted book: Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences, James Lardner and David A. Smith, eds., The New Press, 2005 - See more at: http://www.stateofnature.org/?p=6017#sthash.9iY5JgDD.dpuf

haikugal

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2. Thanks for the information...

Reply to 99th_Monkey (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 05:39 PM

Feb 2016

It's important.

K&R for the OP.

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