EAN: 9780691190785

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Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row--a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades deaths of despair from suicide drug overdose and alcoholism have risen dramatically and now claim hundreds of thousands of American lives each year--and they're still rising. Anne Case and Angus Deaton known for first sounding the alarm about deaths of despair explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class. They demonstrate why for those who used to prosper in America capitalism is no longer delivering. In this critically important book Case and Deaton tie the crisis to the weakening position of labor the growing power of corporations and above all to a rapacious health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages into the pockets of the wealthy. Capitalism which over two centuries lifted countless people out of poverty is now destroying the lives of blue-collar America.

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