Sun 20 Jul 2008
American inequality highlighted by 30-year gap in life expectancy
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By Leonard Doyle Independent U.K. 7/17/08
The United States of America is becoming less united by the day. A 30-year gap now exists in the average life expectancy between Mississippi, in the Deep South, and Connecticut, in prosperous New England. Huge disparities have also opened up in income, health and education depending on where people live in the US, according to a report published yesterday. (more…)