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Title:  America’s Blue-Collar White People Are Dying at an Astounding Rate Author: Barbara Ehrenreich Source: In These Times

*Date:* Dec 1, 2015

*Summary:*  The white working class, which usually inspires liberal concern only for its paradoxical, Republican-leaning voting habits, has recently become newsworthy for something else: according to http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/health/death-rates-rising-for-middle-aged-white-americans-study-finds.html economist Anne Case and Angus Deaton, the winner of the latest Nobel Prize in economics, its members in the 45- to 54-year-old age group are dying at an immoderate rate. While the lifespan of affluent whites continues to lengthen, the lifespan of poor whites has been shrinking. As a result, in just the last four years, the gap between poor white men and wealthier ones has widened by up to four years. The *New York Times* summed up the Deaton and Case study with this headline: “Income Gap, Meet the Longevity Gap http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/business/income-gap-meet-the-longevity-gap.html .” Link: bit.ly/1YFCvJP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary@work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library