The new face of suburbia: Economic woes and early death
The impact of globalization, intensified by trade policy, effectively pits American workers against their lower-wage peers around the world.
“What you see is that mortality rates rise and stay high in the most exposed counties,” Schott said, noting the spike in unemployment in those regions after the U.S. liberalized trade with China in 2000.
“Trade policy is sometimes sold as everyone wins -- that’s clearly too simple a way of picturing it,” he said.
For many adults, the ability to have a good job, a career and a home appears unobtainable, leading to what experts call “deaths of despair.”
The drug overdose epidemic is the top cause of early death among 25- to 44-year-olds, an age many people in this group traditionally buy their first homes and embark on careers.
Edited by Rogerdodger, 30 March 2017 - 12:04 AM.