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How Less Education Leads To Lower Life Expectancy

post from ThinkProgress on 22 September 2012 10:30:21 AM. © ThinkProgress

White Americans without high school diplomas have seen their life expectancy fall by four years since 1990, according to results from a recent Health Affairs study. The New York Times reports that the drop was sharpest among less-educated white women, whose life expectancy dropped by five years, as opposed to a three year decline for [...]

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