Life Expectancy for Less Educated Whites in U.S. Is Shrinking - NYTimes.com
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Published: September 20, 2012
Life Spans Shrink for Least-Educated Whites in the U.S.
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
For generations of Americans, it was a given that children would live longer than their parents. But there is now mounting evidence that this enduring trend has reversed itself for the country’s least-educated whites, an increasingly troubled group whose life expectancy has fallen by four years since 1990.