For whites across America, deaths of despair are rising

Trump appealed to this segment of society with promises of bringing jobs back that all no longer there

What is needed is new thinking on the nature of work and income along with training


For many white Americans without a college degree, life in America has devolved in a few short decades from one that offered ample economic opportunity into a socioeconomic dead end.

That’s according to new research from Princeton economists Anne Case and Nobel Prize-winner Angus Deaton, who grabbed headlines in 2015 with their finding that the death rate for middle-aged white Americans had sharply risen. The new research adds color to their earlier findings, helping to explain what’s driving mortality rates for less educated whites beyond that of blacks and their counterparts in other developed countries.

The problems don’t hold true for all white Americans, since those with a college degree are enjoying lower mortality rates, they note. Yet for white adults without that piece of parchment, the world has gotten tougher. Long gone are the days of a healthy labor market for high-school graduates and strong social ties through marriage, religion and child-rearing.

Instead, less educated whites face tepid demand for their skills and stagnant wages, with the opioid crisis adding “fuel to the flames,” Case and Deaton write.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...s-of-despair-are-rising/ar-BByDYIj?li=BBnb7Kz

 

I am sure tax cuts for the rich and taking away health care will fix it for them. Oh, and then there are also those pesky unions keeping them down.

These people just have to get off their behinds and better themselves -- says the GOP mantra.

 

Your government is so racist. Why the concern for white Americans only?

 

The left isn't concerned for white America. Someone has to be.

 

It's called white privilege, haven't you been told?

 

All I see when I look at white America is they wish black people would stop robbing, raping and carjacking them. Is that too damn much to ask from our minority population?

 

Lol

I see a bunch of racist twits and whiners.

 

Because without us paying the bills the welfare state ends

 

Which ironically is very racist on your part.

 

Or you just see people that don't mind pointing out statistical anomalies

 

We just had a black president who took sides with everyone except whites, he even had a list, according to the Podesta emails, of cabinet choices which labeled people by their color - there were no whites on the list, mostly blacks, muslims and latinos.

 

What? All I've heard is how I have this mythical "white privilege" and life is nothing but private jets and Bentley's.

 

Sounds like good news for the left. Kill off all of the whites and the US will turn into another third world nation, the liberal utopia.

 

Hmm. Who forms the majority of your prison population? Oh yes, all those law-abiding white folks.

 

Hanging around a bunch of liberal white Democrats can be a real drag, yes.

 

Not at all.

 

It objectively is.

 

Got us a race baiter.

 

What is this 'white culture', and how would I recognise it?

 

Why, is it in imminent danger of collapse or something?

 

Not at all. But doesn't hurt to start looking out for our own interests since the left is more concerned with vilifying us.

 

No, just the bigoted 'whites are best' idiots.

 

Beethoven, Shakespeare, Rembrandt.

You recognize it by the profundity of thought and depth of spirit.

 

What is your source for this? Is it one kid? Thousands? Millions and millions? I've not heard a word of it, and I have a white child in a primarily black/Latino school. (White demo makes up 35% of the school.)

 

And, like your other threads that touch upon the same general theme, you seem pretty happy about it. Care to expand upon that?