Joblessness shortens lifespan of least educated white women, research says, By Sabrina Tavernise, May 30, 2013, New York Times: “Researchers have known for some time that life expectancy is declining for the country’s least educated white women, but they have not been able to explain why. A new study has found that the two factors most strongly associated with higher death rates were smoking and not having a job. The aim of the study, which is being published Thursday in The Journal of Health and Social Behavior, was to explain the growing gap in mortality between white women without a high school diploma and those with a high school diploma or more…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty