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The rice paradox
Sure, freer trade will probably boost production, eventually. But that's little comfort to the urban poor, right now.
Andrew Leonard [2008-04-28]

  • Forget The Urban Poor, What About The Rural Poor

    Anybody else see this article in the New York Times?

    Life Expectancy Is Declining in Some Pockets of the Country

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/health/research/22life.html?_r=1&ref=weekinreview&oref=slogin

    From the article:

    "Counties with significant declines were concentrated in Appalachia, the Southeast, Texas, the southern Midwest and along the Mississippi River. Life expectancy increases were mainly in the Northeast and on the Pacific Coast.

    From 1961 to 1983, no county had a statistically significant decline in life expectancy, and reductions in cardiovascular disease led to a generally increasing length of life for both sexes. But after 1983, life expectancy declined an average of 1.3 years in 11 counties for men, and in 180 counties for women."

    Well, lookie there. The decline started in 1983. The Reagan Revolution at work.

    Checkout the graphs in the article as well. Lifespans started to decline in the Soviet Union about 20 years before it finally collapsed.

    -- sunspot
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    Monday, April 28, 2008 02:55 PM
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