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Gaps seen by education level in US life expectancy

By Will Dunham
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Posted 11 March 2008 @ 12:58 pm GMT

World War II veteran Murray Gaile participates in a Memorial Day ceremony in New York May 28, 2007
World War II veteran Murray Gaile participates in a Memorial Day ceremony in New York May 28, 2007. People are living longer in the United States but those with no more than a high school education are not sharing in the trend, researchers said on Tu...

"We like to think that as we as a country get healthier, everyone benefits," Harvard's David Cutler, who also worked on the study, said in a statement. "Here we've found that you can have a rising tide that only lifts half the boats -- and the ones lifted are the ones doing better to begin with."

The findings were based on U.S. death certificate data, census population estimates and other information.

Other research in the journal also examined disparities among Americans.

One study showed that black and Latino children were 12 times more likely than white children to both come from a poor family and live in a neighborhood with a high rates of poverty, unemployment, households headed by a single woman and adults without a high school diploma.

A typical poor white child lives in a neighborhood with a poverty rate of about 14 percent, compared to 30 percent for a typical poor black child and 26 percent for a typical poor Latino child, the study found.

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