Poor people die younger in the U.S. That skews American politics.
“The 2017 U.S. Census Bureau’s Official Poverty Measures reports that within the country, 40 million people — more than one in every eight Americans — live in poverty. Almost half of them are categorized as indefinitely in ‘deep poverty,’ living with less than $2 a day. Put that together with the fact that in the U.S., about 2.6 million people die every year — and most of those deaths are associated with poverty.”