{"id":9166,"date":"2020-03-06T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=9166"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T14:01:13","slug":"how-working-class-life-is-killing-americans-in-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=9166","title":{"rendered":"How Working-Class Life Is Killing Americans, in Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/03\/06\/opinion\/working-class-death-rate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Up and down the age spectrum, deaths of despair have been surging for people without a four-year college degree:<\/p>\n<p>Case and Deaton \u2014 a married couple who are both economists at Princeton \u2014 try to explain the causes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deathsofdespair.princeton.edu\/about-book\">in a new book<\/a>, \u201cDeaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.\u201d Their basic answer is that working-class life in the United States is more difficult than it is in any other high-income country. \u201cEuropean countries have faced the same kind of technological change we have, and they\u2019re not seeing the people killing themselves with guns or drugs or alcohol,\u201d Case says. \u201cThere is something unique about the way the U.S. is handling this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deathsofdespair.princeton.edu\/about-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9168\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Number-of-deaths-of-despair-per-100000-non-Hispanic-whites-aged-45-54-March-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1516\" height=\"957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Number-of-deaths-of-despair-per-100000-non-Hispanic-whites-aged-45-54-March-2020.jpg 1516w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Number-of-deaths-of-despair-per-100000-non-Hispanic-whites-aged-45-54-March-2020-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Number-of-deaths-of-despair-per-100000-non-Hispanic-whites-aged-45-54-March-2020-768x485.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1516px) 100vw, 1516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"g-body \">Inequality\u00a0has risen more in the United States \u2014 and middle-class incomes have stagnated more severely \u2014 than in France, Germany, Japan or elsewhere. Large corporations have\u00a0increased\u00a0their market share, and labor unions have shriveled, leaving workers with little bargaining power. Outsourcing has become the norm, which means that executives often see low-wage workers not as colleagues but as expenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-body \">And the United States suffers from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/publications\/journal-article\/2018\/mar\/health-care-spending-united-states-and-other-high-income\">by far<\/a>\u00a0the world\u2019s most expensive health-care system. It acts as a tax on workers and drains resources that could otherwise be spent on schools, day care, roads, public transit and more. Despite its unparalleled spending, the American medical system also fails to keep many people healthy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times: Up and down the age spectrum, deaths of despair have been surging for people without a four-year college degree: Case and Deaton \u2014 a married couple who are both economists at Princeton \u2014 try to explain the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=9166\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}