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According to a report by the Congressional Research Service (PDF hosted on Cloudflare; archived copy here),
Although life expectancy has generally been increasing over time in the United States, researchers have long documented that it is lower for individuals with lower socioeconomic status (SES) compared with individuals with higher SES. Recent studies provide evidence that this gap has widened in recent decades. For example, a 2015 study by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) found that for men born in 1930, individuals in the highest income quintile (top 20%) could expect to live 5.1 years longer at age 50 than men in the lowest income quintile. This gap has increased significantly over time. Among men born in 1960, those in the top income quintile could expect to live 12.7 years longer than men in the bottom income quintile. This NAS study finds similar patterns for women: the life expectancy gap between the bottom and top income quintiles of women expanded from 3.9 years for the 1930 birth cohort to 13.6 years for the 1960 birth cohort.
Apparently, all the advances in medical science and healthy living that occurred during this rolling 30-year interval were visited upon the rich a lot more than on the poor.
According to a different study (open; DOI 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.0918; archived copy here) in JAMA Internal Medicine,
[...] inequalities in life expectancy among counties are large and growing, and much of the variation in life expectancy can be explained by differences in socioeconomic and race/ethnicity factors, behavioral and metabolic risk factors, and health care factors.
In 2014, there was a spread of 20.1 years between the counties with the longest and shortest typical life spans based on life expectancy at birth.
—NPR
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(Score: 2) by Whoever on Sunday May 28 2017, @08:03PM (3 children)
No, I don't. I think that you poor and I know that I am not.
Let's face it, you indicated you live in a flyover state, all of which are poorer than the coastal states.
Oh, and those farms: did you look at how much of US agriculture is based in California?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 28 2017, @08:11PM
Yes, plenty. Pay attention to what's grown there. You'll definitely not have a shortage of nuts and fruits over in California, that's for sure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 28 2017, @08:14PM (1 child)
Oh, and only a Tolerant Liberal (TM) could be ignorant and hypocritical enough to prejudge people based on what state they live in. You're in great company.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Monday May 29 2017, @12:42AM
That's true, it is pretty ignorant to prejudge fly-over country based on regularly published statistics. I've lived here my whole life. Let me say with confidence that GP is correct!
On the other hand, I like open air target practice. I've never actually been to an indoor gun range. Never needed to.
(Having advanced infiltrator tranny capabilities helps with this, but to be honest, there's a good number of people in flyover country who aren't jackasses like you. We're just all a bunch of proud ammosexuals!)