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Throughout the 20th Century the developed world saw mortality rates fall and people lived longer and longer. But there is one group who may no longer be seeing a fall in their mortality rate 鈥搈iddle-aged White Americans. This is according to research from the eminent economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton. It is shocking research that adds to a view that times are tough for white working class men, a group that contributed to Donald Trump鈥檚 electoral success. But the work has been criticised for statistical problems and for not focusing enough on black Americans. Tim Harford attempts to explain what is really going on with mortality rates in the USA.

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