Study: Mortality Rates Among White People Worse Than Originally Thought.

says the economists found that “sickness and early death in the white working class could be rooted in poor job prospects for less-educated young people as they first enter the labor market, a situation that compounds over time through family dysfunction, social isolation, addiction, obesity and other pathologies.” The trend “affects whites of both sexes and is happening nearly everywhere in the country” and “education level is significant” as “people with a college degree report better health and happiness than those with only some college, who in turn are doing much better than those who never went.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-research-identifies-a-sea-of-despair-among-white-working-class-americans/2017/03/22/c777ab6e-0da6-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html