Complex Event Analysis - Report
Key Focus
The fundamental cause of that epidemic, our analysis suggests, was not economic fluctuations, but rather the long-term loss of a way of life among white working-class Americans. Notably, deaths of despair were rising before the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession, when US unemployment rose from 4.5% to 10%, and they continued to rise as unemployment gradually fell to 3.5% in the days before the pandemicBetween rising "deaths of despair" among working-class whites and higher COVID-19 mortality rates among African-Americans, the stunning secular decline in US life expectancy will continue.Momentum supporting factors
(americans, less-educated) (americans, prime-age) (health, income, workers) (health, workers) (health, risk) (health, income, less-educated) (covid-19, health, income) (americans, health) (americans, health, income) (health, income, wealth)Challenge supporting factors
(americans, working-class) (americans, unemployment) (americans, economic) (americans, united_states)Work-in-progress supporting factors
(americans, working-class) (americans, economic) (americans, covid-19) (americans, three-year) (health, workers) (health, risk) (covid-19, health) (covid-19, health, income) (college, health)