Evidence of economic growth and prosperity in the U.S. is hard to miss. The stock market has been booming for more than 10 years and the unemployment rate is at a low 3.5%. But the U.S. is also the only rich country in the world where the mortality rate has been going up, not down. Much of that trend is driven by men without college degrees in America’s heartland, according to Brookings. “Significant sectors of our society are dying prematurely from preventable deaths (deaths of despair) and almost 20% of prime aged males are out of the labor force,” according to a recent Brookings report, “Geography of Desperation in America https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-geography-of-desperation-in-america-labor-force-participation-mobility-trends-place-and-well-being/?utm_campaign=Brookings%20Brief&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=78166038.”
Certain American men are dying 'deaths of despair' https://finance.yahoo.com/news/deaths-of-despair-why-this-group-of-americans-has-higher-mortality-rates-130633528.html
