"Lee County, second to Owsley in terms of the decline in life expectancy, is home to “America’s poorest white town”—Beattyville, Kentucky, the county seat. Beattyville has seen an explosion of opioid addiction since the closure of its few coalmines and decline of the oil and timber industries. The median household income in the town stands at $14,871, less than a third of the national median. Like its measure of life expectancy, Lee County’s household income is lower today than it was in 1980."
Under the Obama administration, more Americans have
found themselves consigned to economic ghettos, living
in neighborhoods where more than 40 percent subsist
below the poverty level.
found themselves consigned to economic ghettos, living
in neighborhoods where more than 40 percent subsist
below the poverty level.
Millions more now live in “high poverty” districts of 20-
40 percent poverty, according to recently released report
by the Brookings Institution.
40 percent poverty, according to recently released report
by the Brookings Institution.
Life expectancy
study shows 20-year gap between richest and poorest US counties
By Naomi Spencer
10 May 2017
The growth of social inequality is manifested in every facet of
American life, including the health and lifespans of individuals. Inequality in
life expectancy has grown substantially since 1980, a new study published May 8
in the American Medical Association’s JAMA: Internal Medicine confirms. The study documents
“large—and increasing—geographic disparities among counties in life expectancy
over the past 35 years.”
Their study, “Inequalities in Life Expectancy Among US Counties,
1980 to 2014: Temporal Trends and Key Drivers,” drew data from the National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), along with population counts from the US
Census Bureau, NCHS, and the Human Mortality Database. This data set allows for
a fuller picture of the scale of inequality in life expectancy that other
recent research has shown. (The IHME maintains an interactive county-level map)
The study found that in 2014 life expectancy at birth for both
sexes at the national level was 79.1 years (76.7 years for men and 81.5 years
for women). The combined average amounts to a 5.3-year growth in life
expectancy over the 1980 average of 73.8 years.
Behind this overall growth in lifespan, however, the study found a
staggering 20.1-year gap between the lowest and highest life expectancy among
all US counties.
In the Dakotas, several of the shortest-lived counties encompass
Native American reservations. Oglala Lakota County in South Dakota, home to the
Pine Ridge Native American reservation, had the lowest life expectancy in the
country in 2014, at just 66.8 years. In a press release, the IHME researchers
noted that this was lower than the life expectancies of Sudan and Iraq—countries
that have been torn apart by brutal wars over the course of decades.
Owsley County was found by a 2016 Al
Jazeera analysis to
be the poorest white-majority county in the US. Some 45 percent of the county’s
4,500 residents, and 56.3 percent of children, live below the poverty
threshold. Official unemployment stands at 10 percent, but with only 35 percent
of the working age population included in the labor force, real unemployment is
approaching 75 percent. Per capita income as of 2015 stands at $15,158,
according to federal Census Bureau data.
TRUMPERNOMICS: IMPLEMENTING
OBAMA-
CLINTONIMCS
“CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WILL CONTINUE TO RULE
AMERICA!” Twitter Trumper
OBAMA-CLINTON-TRUMPERnomics: The
Massive Transfer of Wealth to the Super Rich Ratcheted up!
The American oligarchy, steeped in
criminality and
parasitism, can produce only a government of war, social
reaction and repression. In its blind avarice, it is creating the
conditions
for unprecedented social upheavals. It is hurtling
toward its own revolutionary
demise at the hands of the
working class.
BUT WE KNOW WHERE THEY LIVE!
“The massive transfer
of wealth will not go to investment, but
to acquiring bigger diamonds; more
luxurious mansions, yachts
and private jets; new private islands; more security
guards and
better-protected gated communities to segregate the
financial nobility
from the masses whom they despise and
fear.”
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike,
has become a
kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes.
This is the way a
great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen
McQuillan AMERICAN
THINKER.com
BARACK OBAMA PLANS A THIRD TERM:
HIS CRONY BANKSTERS, LA RAZA,
MUSLIMS
AND THOSE MUSLIM
DICTATORSHIPS HE FUNDED ARE
BEHIND HIM…. Along with George
Soros!
THE OBAMA COUP TO BE DICTATOR:
“Barack
Obama and his henchmen would not have been emboldened in their ostensible
machinations to undermine an election and then a presidency if it were
not for the fecklessness of the Republican Party and the blind eye as
well as the
tacit support of the mainstream media.”
THE LEGACY OF
BARACK OBAMA:
Final Death of the American White Middle
Class
Under the
Obama administration, more Americans have
found themselves consigned to
economic ghettos, living
in neighborhoods where more than 40 percent subsist
below the poverty level.
Millions more now live in “high poverty” districts
of 20-
40 percent poverty, according to recently released report
by the
Brookings Institution.
THE OBAMA BOOK DEAL: Sixty-five million dollars—or even $267.5
million—is a small price to pay for the contribution the former president made
to enriching the already fabulously rich, defending the American ruling elite’s
geopolitical interests around the world and continuing the assault on the
wages, benefits and living standards of the working class.
Plenty of money for ILLEGALS……
AMERICA’S
OPEN BORDERS
HOMELESS ELDERLY in AMERICA
UNDER
MEX OCCUPATION
A Nation dies young, poor, addicted
and homeless…. It’s the American dream as the rich get super rich!
America’s Super-rich Live 15 Years Longer!
………….. America’s Bludgeoned Middle-Class Dies Young, Addicted and Poor!
WE ARE MEXICO'S WELFARE SYSTEM
$640,000 and breeding anchor babies like bunnies
MURDER, RAPE, LOOT and VOTE DEM FOR MORE!
EACH ILLEGAL WILL COST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
$640,000
and then they go breed anchor babies for more!
WHICH SIDE OF THE EQUATION ARE YOU DIGGING YOUR CHILDRENS’ GRAVES?
“Millions
of middle class families have been driven to bankruptcy by illness and
medical bills.”
“This dramatic contrast in
life expectancy
between the rich and poor is directly
correlated to the growth
of obscene wealth at
the top among a tiny elite and entrenched
poverty among
growing numbers of people at
the bottom.”….. BUT AMERICA STILL
FINDS BILLIONS
TO HAND TO MEXICAN
INVADERS, WHICH INCLUDES “FREE”
HEALTHCARE.
In the first part of
the Lancet series, “Inequality and the
health-care system in
the USA,” the British medical journal’s
researchers found that these
income-based disparities in US
life expectancy are worsened by the for-profit
US health care
system itself, which relies on private insurers, pharmaceutical
companies and health care chains. It is also the most
expensive health system
in the world.
The growth of social inequality is manifested in every facet of
American life, including the health and lifespans of individuals. Inequality in
life expectancy has grown substantially since 1980, a new study published May 8
in the American Medical Association’s JAMA: Internal Medicine confirms. The study documents
“large—and increasing—geographic disparities among counties in life expectancy
over the past 35 years.”
Researchers from the University of Washington’s Institute for
Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Erasmus University in the Netherlands
analyzed death records and population counts from all US counties.
Their study, “Inequalities in Life Expectancy Among US Counties,
1980 to 2014: Temporal Trends and Key Drivers,” drew data from the National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), along with population counts from the US
Census Bureau, NCHS, and the Human Mortality Database. This data set allows for
a fuller picture of the scale of inequality in life expectancy that other
recent research has shown. (The IHME maintains an interactive county-level map)
The study found that in 2014 life expectancy at birth for both
sexes at the national level was 79.1 years (76.7 years for men and 81.5 years
for women). The combined average amounts to a 5.3-year growth in life
expectancy over the 1980 average of 73.8 years.
Behind this overall growth in lifespan, however, the study found a
staggering 20.1-year gap between the lowest and highest life expectancy among
all US counties.
Three wealthy counties in central Colorado—Summit, Eagle, and
Pitkin—recorded the longest life expectancies in the country, at 86 years on average.
At the other end of the spectrum, several counties in South and North Dakota
had the lowest life expectancy, along with “counties along the lower half of
the Mississippi [the Delta region] and in eastern Kentucky and southwestern
West Virginia,” the study found. These areas “saw little, if any, improvement”
since 1980. Thirteen counties registered a decline in life expectancy.
In the Dakotas, several of the shortest-lived counties encompass
Native American reservations. Oglala Lakota County in South Dakota, home to the
Pine Ridge Native American reservation, had the lowest life expectancy in the
country in 2014, at just 66.8 years. In a press release, the IHME researchers
noted that this was lower than the life expectancies of Sudan and Iraq—countries
that have been torn apart by brutal wars over the course of decades.
“Looking at life expectancy on a national level masks the massive
differences that exist at the local level, especially in a country as diverse
as the United States,” lead author Laura Dwyer-Lindgren of IHME explained.
“Risk factors like obesity, lack of exercise, high blood pressure, and smoking
explain a large portion of the variation in lifespans, but so do socioeconomic
factors like race, education, and income.”
The study found that all counties saw a decline in the risk of
dying before age 5 since 1980, attributable to improvements in health programs
for infants and children. At the same time, the data showed an increased risk
of death for adults aged 25-45 in 11.5 percent of counties, a phenomenon
partially explained by the rise in suicides and drug addiction.
Although the research points to “a combination of socioeconomic
and race/ethnicity factors, behavioral and metabolic risk factors, and health
care factors” to account for the disparities in life expectancy, all of the
factors intersect with poverty. It is not a coincidence that the poorest areas
recorded the shortest life expectancies and the wealthiest areas recorded the
longest lifespans.
Risk factors like obesity, diabetes, high blood
pressure, smoking,
and physical inactivity are
highly correlated to poverty, unemployment
and lack
of education. In areas where the population lacks access to preventive care or
they cannot afford basic health care, chronic conditions become debilitating.
Cancers go undetected, mental illness is undiagnosed, pregnancies are carried
without adequate prenatal care, heart disease is untreated, and work-related
injuries are managed with highly addictive pain medications instead of physical
therapy and rest.
Of the 10 counties where lifespans fell the most since 1980, eight
are in the coalfields region of eastern Kentucky: Owsley (-3 percent); Lee (-2
percent); Leslie (-1.9 percent); Breathitt (-1.4 percent); Clay (-1.3 percent);
Powell (-1.1 percent); Estill (-1 percent); Perry County, Kentucky (-0.8
percent). Kiowa County, Oklahoma, (-0.7 percent), and Perry County, Alabama,
(-0.6 percent) round out the list of counties where life expectancy declined
the most.
Residents of Owsley County, Kentucky saw a decline in life
expectancy from 72.4 in 1980 to 70.2 in 2014—comparable to the life expectancy
in Kyrgyzstan or North Korea.
Owsley County was found by a 2016 Al
Jazeera analysis to
be the poorest white-majority county in the US. Some 45 percent of the county’s
4,500 residents, and 56.3 percent of children, live below the poverty
threshold. Official unemployment stands at 10 percent, but with only 35 percent
of the working age population included in the labor force, real unemployment is
approaching 75 percent. Per capita income as of 2015 stands at $15,158,
according to federal Census Bureau data.
As with the rest of the Appalachian coalfields region, the
counties where life expectancy has dropped have seen every metric of economic
and social well-being decline over the past several decades. Coal mining
employment in eastern Kentucky has fallen to levels not seen in a century. With
hundreds of mines shuttered, counties have lost so-called coal-severance tax
revenue paid by companies per ton of coal extracted. Thousands of families have
left in search of work, triggering a further collapse in the tax base for local
governments, school districts, and social programs. The elimination of
thousands of coal mining jobs has left mostly low-wage occupations for residents.
Lee County, second to Owsley in terms of the decline in life
expectancy, is home to “America’s poorest white town”—Beattyville, Kentucky,
the county seat. Beattyville has seen an explosion of opioid addiction since
the closure of its few coalmines and decline of the oil and timber industries.
The median household income in the town stands at $14,871, less than a third of
the national median. Like its measure of life expectancy, Lee County’s
household income is lower today than it was in 1980.
Kentucky and neighboring West Virginia have among the highest
opioid overdose rates in the country, with the coalfields counties especially
hard-hit. In 2013, drug overdoses accounted for 56 percent of all accidental
deaths in Kentucky; the state’s death rate for overdoses is 29.9 per 100,000.
In the eastern counties, emergency services are less able to reach and save
overdose victims and health providers have struggled to afford lifesaving
anti-opioid treatments like Narcan.
TRUMPERNOMICS: IMPLEMENTING
OBAMA-
CLINTONIMCS
“CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WILL CONTINUE TO RULE
AMERICA!” Twitter Trumper
OBAMA-CLINTON-TRUMPERnomics: The
Massive Transfer of Wealth to the Super Rich Ratcheted up!
The American oligarchy, steeped in
criminality and
parasitism, can produce only a government of war, social
reaction and repression. In its blind avarice, it is creating the
conditions
for unprecedented social upheavals. It is hurtling
toward its own revolutionary
demise at the hands of the
working class.
BUT WE KNOW WHERE THEY LIVE!
“The massive transfer
of wealth will not go to investment, but
to acquiring bigger diamonds; more luxurious mansions, yachts
and private jets; new private islands; more security guards and
better-protected gated communities to segregate the
financial nobility from the masses whom they despise and
fear.”
to acquiring bigger diamonds; more luxurious mansions, yachts
and private jets; new private islands; more security guards and
better-protected gated communities to segregate the
financial nobility from the masses whom they despise and
fear.”
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike,
has become a
kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes.
This is the way a
great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen
McQuillan AMERICAN
THINKER.com
BARACK OBAMA PLANS A THIRD TERM:
HIS CRONY BANKSTERS, LA RAZA,
MUSLIMS AND THOSE MUSLIM
DICTATORSHIPS HE FUNDED ARE
BEHIND HIM…. Along with George Soros!
HIS CRONY BANKSTERS, LA RAZA,
MUSLIMS AND THOSE MUSLIM
DICTATORSHIPS HE FUNDED ARE
BEHIND HIM…. Along with George Soros!
THE OBAMA COUP TO BE DICTATOR:
THE ARMY OF ILLEGALS TO BRING
AMERICA DOWN AND FORM THE OBAMA MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP THAT WILL BE OPEN
BORDERS AND PRO LA RAZA FASCIST SUPREMACY.
Daniel Greenfield, the award-winning Shillman
Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, believes (OBAMA'S POLITICAL PARTY)
“OFA will be far more dangerous in the wild than the Clinton Foundation ever
was.”
“Barack
Obama and his henchmen would not have been emboldened in their ostensible
machinations to undermine an election and then a presidency if it were
not for the fecklessness of the Republican Party and the blind eye as
well as the
tacit support of the mainstream media.”
THE LEGACY OF
BARACK OBAMA:
Final Death of the American White Middle
Class
Class
Under the Obama administration, more Americans have
found themselves consigned to economic ghettos, living
in neighborhoods where more than 40 percent subsist
below the poverty level.
Millions more now live in “high poverty” districts
of 20-
40 percent poverty, according to recently released report
by the Brookings Institution.
40 percent poverty, according to recently released report
by the Brookings Institution.
THE OBAMA BOOK DEAL: Sixty-five million dollars—or even $267.5
million—is a small price to pay for the contribution the former president made
to enriching the already fabulously rich, defending the American ruling elite’s
geopolitical interests around the world and continuing the assault on the
wages, benefits and living standards of the working class.
Plenty of money for ILLEGALS……
AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
HOMELESS ELDERLY in AMERICA
UNDER MEX OCCUPATION
UNDER MEX OCCUPATION
A Nation dies young, poor, addicted
and homeless…. It’s the American dream as the rich get super rich!
According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the number
of elderly persons who are homeless in the US will have doubled by 2050.
America’s Super-rich Live 15 Years Longer!
………….. America’s Bludgeoned Middle-Class Dies Young, Addicted and Poor!
WE ARE MEXICO'S WELFARE SYSTEM
.... A Glimpse...
$640,000 and breeding anchor babies like bunnies
MURDER, RAPE, LOOT and VOTE DEM FOR MORE!
EACH ILLEGAL WILL COST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
$640,000 and then they go breed anchor babies for more!
$640,000 and then they go breed anchor babies for more!
WHICH SIDE OF THE EQUATION ARE YOU DIGGING YOUR CHILDRENS’ GRAVES?
“Millions
of middle class families have been driven to bankruptcy by illness and
medical bills.”
“This dramatic contrast in
life expectancy
between the rich and poor is directly
correlated to the growth
of obscene wealth at
the top among a tiny elite and entrenched
poverty among
growing numbers of people at
the bottom.”….. BUT AMERICA STILL
FINDS BILLIONS
TO HAND TO MEXICAN
INVADERS, WHICH INCLUDES “FREE”
HEALTHCARE.
In the first part of
the Lancet series, “Inequality and the
health-care system in
the USA,” the British medical journal’s
researchers found that these
income-based disparities in US
life expectancy are worsened by the for-profit
US health care
system itself, which relies on private insurers, pharmaceutical
companies and health care chains. It is also the most
expensive health system
in the world.
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