Wednesday, December 2, 2015

RSN: Dead, White, and Blue: The Great Die-Off of America's Blue Collar Whites




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FOCUS: Barbara Ehrenreich | Dead, White, and Blue: The Great Die-Off of America's Blue Collar Whites 
Coal miners. (photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) 
Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch 
Ehrenreich: "The white working class, which usually inspires liberal concern only for its paradoxical, Republican-leaning voting habits, has recently become newsworthy for something else: according to economist Anne Case and Angus Deaton, the winner of the latest Nobel Prize in economics, its members in the 45- to 54-year-old age group are dying at an immoderate rate." 
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