"suddenly believe every argument against wild Keynesian spending was supported only by the "R-R paper".
Not me; I've always believed all the arguments are supported by nothing. Economics isn't science, and nothing proves it more than this. The arguments against Keynes are philosophical, ideological, and wrong.
"they are living longer because of better medicine."
Well, there ya go. Economics ain't science. Problem solved.
Life expectancy drops for country's least-educated whites
Posted: 09/21/2012 12:01:00 AM MDT
By Sabrina Tavernise
The New York Timesdenverpost.com
For generations of Americans, it was a given that children would live longer than their parents. But there is mounting evidence that this trend has reversed itself for the country's least-educated whites, an increasingly troubled group whose life expectancy has fallen by four years since 1990.
Researchers have long documented that the most-educated Americans were making the biggest gains in life expectancy, but now they say mortality data show that life spans for some of the least-educated Americans are actually contracting.
Four studies in recent years identified modest declines, but a new one that looks separately at Americans lacking a high school diploma found sharp drops in life expectancy for whites in this group.
The reasons for the decline remain unclear, but researchers offered possible explanations, including a spike in prescription-drug overdoses among young whites, higher rates of smoking among less-educated white women, rising obesity and a steady increase in the number of the least-educated Americans who lack health insurance.
The steepest declines were for white women without a high school diploma, who lost five years of life between 1990 and 2008, said S. Jay Olshansky, a public health professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the lead investigator on the study, published last month in Health Affairs. By 2008, life expectancy for black women without a high school diploma had surpassed that of white women of the same education level, the study found.
White men lacking a high school diploma lost three years of life. Life expectancy for both blacks and Latinos of the same education level rose, the data showed. But blacks overall do not live as long as whites, while Latinos live longer than both whites and blacks.
The latest estimate shows life expectancy for white women without a high school diploma was 73.5 years, compared with 83.9 years for white women with a college degree or more. For white men, the gap was even bigger: 67.5 years for the least-educated white men compared with 80.4 for those with a college degree or better.
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