High Inequality Results in More US Deaths than Tobacco, Car Crashes and Guns Combined

Juan Cole 04/22/2014

High Inequality Results in More US Deaths than Tobacco, Car Crashes and Guns Combined (via Moyers & Company)

In 2009, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a study that revealed what seems to be a shocking truth: those who live in societies with a higher level of income inequality are at a greater risk for premature death. Here in the United States,…

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment and Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires. Follow him at @jricole.