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Life Expectancy’s Correlation to Income

Life expectancy has been increasing in skewed proportions depending on a persons income class. Upper and upper-middle class saw significantly more gains in life expectancy over lower classes. This is true across both genders. This raises a number of questions with Social Security in both retirement age and in how benefits should be paid out. Robert J. Samuelson has more to say in this article with the Hartford Courant.

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