{"id":398807,"date":"2019-03-10T01:07:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T00:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-and-the-white-working-class\/"},"modified":"2019-03-10T01:07:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T00:07:39","slug":"trump-and-the-white-working-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-and-the-white-working-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and the White Working Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_109890\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109890\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109890\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/03\/7C742276-5AB5-46AD-A20C-31B95DFA442D.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/03\/7C742276-5AB5-46AD-A20C-31B95DFA442D.jpeg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/03\/7C742276-5AB5-46AD-A20C-31B95DFA442D-300x260.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/03\/7C742276-5AB5-46AD-A20C-31B95DFA442D-768x664.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-109890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painting by \u00c9douard Manet<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In November 2015 two Princeton economists,\u00a0Anne Case and Angus Deaton (a Nobel Prize winner), released a revealing study, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/112\/49\/15078.full.pdf\">Rising\u00a0morbidity and mortality in midlife among whitenon-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century<\/a>.\u201d It was published in\u00a0the prestigious\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>.\u00a0The economists\u2019 findings were scary: \u201cOver the 15-y[ear] period, midlife all-cause mortality fell by more than 200 per 100,000 for black non-Hispanics, and by more than 60 per 100,000 for Hispanics.\u00a0By contrast, white non-Hispanic mortality rose by 34 per 100,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In one of their few non-technical digressions, the scholars acknowledge: \u201cAfter the productivity slowdown in the early 1970s, and with widening income inequality, many of the baby-boom generation are the first to find, in midlife, that they will not be better off than were their parents.\u00a0\u00a0Growth in real median earnings has been slow for this group, especially those with only a high school education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a 2017 follow-up, Case and Deaton published a revealing, if scarier, study, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/casetextsp17bpea.pdf\">Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0Their findings are alarming:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We find that mortality and morbidity among white non-Hispanic [WNH] Americans in midlife since the turn of the century continued to climb through 2015. Additional increases in drug overdoses, suicides, and alcohol-related liver mortality \u2014 particularly among those with a high school degree or less \u2014 are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/03\/08\/deaths-of-despair-trump-and-the-white-working-class\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting by \u00c9douard Manet In November 2015 two Princeton economists,\u00a0Anne Case and Angus Deaton (a Nobel Prize winner), released a revealing study, \u201cRising\u00a0morbidity and mortality in midlife among whitenon-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century.\u201d It was published in\u00a0the prestigious\u00a0Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\u00a0The economists\u2019 findings were scary: \u201cOver the 15-y[ear] period, midlife all-cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}