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Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

Joblessness and Life Expectancy

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…”