{"id":3384,"date":"2023-06-22T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/economicintegrity.org\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2023-06-24T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T21:50:16","slug":"the-fourth-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-us-cumulative-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/economicintegrity.org\/?p=3384","title":{"rendered":"The fourth leading cause of death in the US? Cumulative poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/jun\/22\/us-leading-cause-death-poverty-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i class=\"fas fa-newspaper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> The Guardian | by Reverend William Barber and Gregg Gonsalves | <span class=\"submitted-date\">June 22, 2023<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<em>We hear so much about crime rates, opioids, and gun violence in America, but so little from our elected leaders about the poverty crisis&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;A <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ucr.edu\/articles\/2023\/04\/17\/poverty-4th-greatest-cause-us-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">recent study<\/a> by one of our colleagues shows that cumulative poverty over many years is the fourth leading cause of death in this country. Current poverty \u2013 just being poor right now \u2013 is seventh on that list, and it alone causes 10 times as many deaths as homicide, close to five times as many deaths as gun violence, and 2.5 times as many deaths as drug overdoses. Cumulative poverty that lingers year after year is associated with approximately 60% more deaths than current poverty, putting only heart disease, cancer and smoking-related deaths ahead in the number of Americans it kills.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/jun\/22\/us-leading-cause-death-poverty-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian | by Reverend William Barber and Gregg Gonsalves | June 22, 2023 &#8220;We hear so much about crime rates, opioids, and gun violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The fourth leading cause of death in the US? 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