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03/25/2008: "Income disparity increasing not decreasing"

New government research has found "large and growing" disparities in life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth of income inequality in the last two decades.

One of the researchers, Gopal K. Singh, a demographer at the Department of Health and Human Services, said "the growing inequalities in life expectancy" mirrored trends in infant mortality and in death from heart disease and certain cancers.

[ The end result of capitalism, freedom, democracy, tolerance... is wage slavery? LOL, how easy it is to fool you people! ]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/us/23health.html