Dying From Despair, but No Help From Trump
“America is in the throes of a deep and pervasive social crisis — and it’s killing people at an alarming rate. That’s the takeaway from the announcement in December that, for a second year in a row, average life expectancy in the US has declined. According to the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Americans can now expect to live 78.6 years on average — a decline of 0.1 year for 2016 over the figures from 2015, which also represented a drop.”