This is what the peer-reviewed paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine has to say based on the peer-reviewed facts: “The US perennially has a far higher poverty rate than peer-rich democracies.1 This high poverty rate in the US presents an enormous challenge to population health given that considerable research demonstrates that being in poverty is bad for one’s health.2 Despite valuable contributions of prior research on income and mortality, the quantity of mortality associated with poverty in the US remains unknown. In this cohort study, we estimated the association between poverty and mortality and quantified the proportion and number of deaths associated with poverty.”
When you hear, as you do constantly, politicians and television commentators say that America is the richest country in the world, what you should hear is that a small group of Americans are obscenely rich and that 37.9 million Americans are living in poverty, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and that the Republicans in the House today passed a bill that will dramatically increase poverty in the United States. Or to make it even simpler, vote Republican to increase poverty and make the lives of millions of Americans more miserable and the people in Red states will be particularly affected.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Poverty kills more Americans than obesity, diabetes, and murders, making it the nation’s fourth leading cause of death, according to a new analysis. A researcher from the University of California-Riverside reports that the only things that kill more people are heart disease, cancer, and smoking.
According to the findings, not earning enough money to meet basic needs contributed to around 183,000 deaths in the United States in 2019 alone. An international team working on this project are now dubbing poverty the “silent killer.”
This is a conservative estimate, scientists note, since the data focused on those over 15 years of age and was collected just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic — which caused spikes in deaths as well as an economic upheaval worldwide.
The researchers defined poverty as earning less than 50 percent of the median U.S. income. Suicides, firearms, homicides, and obesity, diabetes, and drug overdoses, were all less lethal than poverty, according to the study. Impoverished people have roughly the same survival rate until […]
I certainly believe this to be factual. My low amount of income on Social Security has made me have to use a credit card which has climbed up to it’s upper limit, so I cannot even pay for my home-owners insurance. I had no idea it had grown so much because I just put in $364 into the credit card this month $44 of which was not even due until next month. I should have waited until next month to put in the $44 when it was due on the 13’th of May.
There is never any money left at the end of the month. What I get on Social Security would be enough to scrape by on in the 1970’s, but is definitely not enough for this century. The poor always get the shaft. I cannot even get a reverse mortgage to pay off my credit card because a person’s house has to be worth at least $130,000 or you cannot get a Reverse Mortgage and mine is only worth $52,000, so I am too poor to get the help I need. The whole system is perverse and works against the poor. I just feel helpless, despite being well read and consider myself intelligent, but it does not matter. The furniture and books and tools and other things in my house are worth as much as the house itself. It is this damned Capitalist system that is rigged against poor people! .
I certainly believe this to be factual. My low amount of income on Social Security has made me have to use a credit card which has climbed up to it’s upper limit, so I cannot even pay for my home-owners insurance. I had no idea it had grown so much because I just put in $364 into the credit card this month $44 of which was not even due until next month. I should have waited until next month to put in the $44 when it was due on the 13’th of May.
There is never any money left at the end of the month. What I get on Social Security would be enough to scrape by on in the 1970’s, but is definitely not enough for this century. The poor always get the shaft. I cannot even get a reverse mortgage to pay off my credit card because a person’s house has to be worth at least $130,000 or you cannot get a Reverse Mortgage and mine is only worth $52,000, so I am too poor to get the help I need. The whole system is perverse and works against the poor. I just feel helpless, despite being well read and consider myself intelligent, but it does not matter. The furniture and books and tools and other things in my house are worth as much as the house itself. It is this damned Capitalist system that is rigged against poor people! .