From Care2: Poor And White? Your Life Expectancy Just Shrank By 4 Years

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Poor And White? Your Life Expectancy Just Shrank By 4 Years

• by Judy Molland
• September 29, 2012
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"Poor white Americans are seeing a decrease in their life expectancy, according to a report published last month in Health Affairs.

Specifically, as the New York Times reported last week, white women without high school diplomas lost a full five years of their lives between 1990 and 2008, while their male counterparts lost three years."

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