Author: Jeff Guo
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The deadly connection between prescription painkillers and the economy
About 15 years ago, death rates among middle-aged white Americans stopped falling and started to climb. It was an unprecedented reversal for a modern industrialized country, and we still don’t fully understand why it happened. The researchers who sounded the alarm – Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton – pointed to rising rates of…
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A massive new study debunks a widespread theory for Donald Trump’s success
Economic distress and anxiety across working-class white America have become a widely discussed explanation for the success of Donald Trump. It seems to make sense. Trump’s most fervent supporters tend to be white men without college degrees. This same group has suffered economically in our increasingly globalized world, as machines have replaced workers in factories…