The data are clear: Life is getting harder and harder for Americans without college degrees. People with a high-school education or less tend to face worse economic prospects and have poorer health.
There has been a striking rise in mortality among middle-aged white Americans who don’t have four-year degrees. The uptick, say the two Princeton University economists who identified the phenomenon, is due primarily to what they call “deaths of despair,” or deaths caused by alcohol, drugs, and suicide….
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education.