'Deaths Of Despair' Examines The Steady Erosion Of U.S. Working-Class Life
Princeton Profs. Anne Case and Angus Deaton make the case that something has gone grievously wrong, starting with the shift to declining life expectancy numbers around the year 2000.
The 20th century was an era of rapid and unprecedented improvement in public health all over the world.
In the United States alone, a person born in 1900 could expect to live to 49; by 2000, that person's great grandchildren were likely to see their 77th birthdays. Reaching old age is no longer an anomaly, and that is true for people of every race, ethnicity
