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 from a pair of Princeton  economists finds that the death rate among white Americans aged 45 to 54 is rising. 

Other racial groups are experiencing dropping mortality rates. The only other cohort with a higher mortality rate is middle-aged black Americans, but the gap between the two is closing.

The numbers were so startling that Samuel Preston, a mortality expert at the University of Pennsylvania, 

, "This is a vivid indication that something is awry in these American households."

Lisa Berkman, Director for the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studie and Dr. Patrick Remington, Associate Dean for Public Health and Professor of Population Health Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison joined 

A discussion about the new research from a pair of Princeton economists that finds the death rate among white Americans aged 45 to 54 is rising.

Kerri Miller goes in depth on the toll that suicide & opiates are taking among middle-aged white Americans.

Discussion: Death rates rise for white people aged 45 to 54

Anne Case and Angus Deaton, "Rising Morbidity and Mortality in Midlife among White Non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st Century," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Suicide and opiates take a rising toll on older white Americans

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