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Free Trade Is Killing White American Men
 The death rate of middle aged white American men without a college degree, men born between 1945 and 1965, has increased sharply over the last decade. That's according to new research by a husband and wife team - including 2015 Nobel Laureate in Economics Angus Deaton.
The findings of the study, published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, surprised the authors.
According to the study abstract, previous studies had shown that suicides and drug poisonings generally increase in midlife.
But what was surprising was the fact that this upswing in drug poisonings and suicides has been big enough to cause the overall death rate to go up for middle-aged white Americans who only have a high school education.
As one figure from the study shows, since the late 1990s the number of deaths has started to climb among middle-aged white Americans with only a high school education.
That steady increase is remarkable when compared to the rates of middle aged Hispanic men in America, and in comparison to a number of other developed countries.
The researchers highlight three causes of death that are driving the overall increase in the deaths among this group of people.
Even though lung cancer deaths have markedly decreased over the last decade, this figure from the study shows that suicides, chronic liver diseases, and alcohol and drug overdoses are overwhelmingly driving the overall increase.
According to Deaton, this research says that "half a million people are dead who should not be dead."
But why are more middle aged white men in America committing suicide, and abusing drugs and alcohol? |
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Daily Take: Free Trade is Killing White American Men
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