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FILE - This April 22, 2014, file photo shows an employment application form on a table at a job fair in Hudson, N.Y. Middle-age white Americans with limited education are increasingly dying younger, on average, than other middle-age U.S. adults, a trend driven by their dwindling economic opportunities, research by two Princeton University economists has found. The economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, argue in a paper released Thursday, March 23, 2017, that the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with high school degrees or less has triggered broad problems for this group. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Death rates up for middle age whites with little education

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In this photo taken Aug. 12, 2015, workers assemble a truck at Ford Motor Company&#8217;s Ohio Assembly Plant Wednesday, Aug. 12, in Avon Lake, Ohio. The United Auto Workers union on Friday, Nob. 6, 2015, has reached a tentative contract agreement with Ford. The contract covers 53,000 workers at 22 U.S. plants. (AP Photo/David Richard)

A toxic combination of declining social status, poor health and failed relationships is being blamed

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times