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People living in the top 1% of U.S. counties ranked by median household income live on average seven years longer than their counterparts in the bottom 50% of counties, according to a Friday report from Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent representing Vermont and the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
“The massive income and wealth inequality that exists in America today is not just an economic issue, it is literally a matter of life and death,” said Sanders in a Friday statement announcing the report.
What’s more, the stress of living paycheck to paycheck “also leads to higher levels of anxiety, depression, cardiovascular disease and poor health,” Sanders argued, in a nod to some of the survey responses included in the analysis.
The analysis echoes […]
Let’s not forget that those working people clearly do not have the medical insurance and ability to pay for all the goodies that keep the very wealthy healthy. Spas, vacations, rest, the best medical care and best insurance, eating the best foods like fruit and vegetables and less processed food.
We have major inequality in the United States, not just in income but in well-being and longer lives, as well as living conditions.