Only the Poor Die Young
▻https://jacobinmag.com/2019/09/poverty-life-expectancy-inequality-health-outcomes-capitalism
A new report confirms what we already knew: the rich live longer than the poor. The study looked at people in the United States who were in their fifties in 1991, and found that three-quarters of the richest among them are still alive today, compared to less than half of the poorest.
This isn’t really news, though it’s good to firm up the stats.