<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">From the NY Times today:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/11/upshot/for-the-poor-geography-is-life-and-death.html">http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/11/upshot/for-the-poor-geography-is-life-and-death.html</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-franklin;font-size:16px"><h2 class="" style="font-size:28px;line-height:1.2em;font-weight:300;margin:50px auto 20px;max-width:540px">On average, the life expectancy for a poor 40-year-old in Latah County is 80.7 years. It is about average for life expectancy for the poor.</h2></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-franklin;font-size:16px"><p class="" style="margin:10px auto;font-size:17px;line-height:26px;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;max-width:540px;width:540px">There is also a gap between the rich — those in households making more than $100,000 per year — and poor: In Latah County, the poor will die about 6 years before the rich. That’s roughly equivalent to the difference in life expectancy between an average man in the United States and one in Rwanda. It is about 1.5 years smaller than the gap for the United States as a whole.</p></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-franklin;font-size:16px"><p class="" style="margin:10px auto;font-size:17px;line-height:26px;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;max-width:540px;width:540px">This is the conclusion of a <a href="http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2016.4226" style="color:rgb(50,104,145)">large study</a> of anonymous earnings records and death certificates, published Monday in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The <a href="http://www.healthinequality.org/" style="color:rgb(50,104,145)">report</a> underscores the role of geography in attaining longevity, particularly for the poor.</p><div class=""><h2 class="" style="font-size:28px;line-height:1.2em;font-weight:300;margin:50px auto 20px;max-width:540px">Poor people in Latah County live shorter lifespans than all of their neighbors.</h2></div><div class="" style="margin:50px 0px"><div class="" style="margin:0px auto;max-width:1050px"><div class="" style="margin:10px auto;width:540px"><div class="" style="margin-bottom:20px"></div><div class=""><table class="" style="width:540px;border-collapse:collapse"><thead><tr class=""><th class="" style="font-weight:300;font-size:11px;text-transform:uppercase"><span class="">COUNTY</span></th><th class="" style="font-weight:300;font-size:11px;text-transform:uppercase;text-align:right">LIFE EXPECTANCY*</th><th class="" style="font-weight:300;font-size:11px;text-transform:uppercase;text-align:right">COMPARED TO <span class="">LATAH COUNTY</span></th><th class="" style="font-weight:300;font-size:11px;text-transform:uppercase;text-align:right">COMPARED TO POOR IN U.S.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class=""><td class="" style="padding:5px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(208,208,208);font-size:14px">Whitman</td><td class="" style="padding:5px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(208,208,208);font-size:14px;text-align:right">82.3 years</td><td class="" style="padding:5px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(208,208,208);font-size:14px;text-align:right">+1.7 years</td><td class="" style="padding:5px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(208,208,208);font-size:14px;text-align:right">+2.9 years</td></tr><tr class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,181)"><td class="" style="padding:5px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(208,208,208);font-size:14px">Latah</td><td class="" style="padding:5px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(208,208,208);font-size:14px;text-align:right">80.7 years</td><td class="" style="padding:5px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(208,208,208);font-size:14px;text-align:right">0.0 years</td><td class="" style="padding:5px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(208,208,208);font-size:14px;text-align:right">+1.3 years</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA</font></div></div></div>
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