https://www.nelp.org/news-releases/workplace-fatalities-rising-trump-osha-enforcement-declines/
WORKPLACE FATALITIES RISING UNDER TRUMP OSHA AS ENFORCEMENT DECLINES
Washington, D.C.—Workplace fatality investigations are at decade-high levels under the Trump administration, at the same time that worksite safety enforcement by the administration’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is steadily declining, according to an analysis of recent government data released today by the National Employment Law Project. The data also revealed that OSHA now has the lowest number of health and safety inspectors in the agency’s 48-year history.
https://theaggie.org/2019/01/18/life-and-death-in-trump-country/
After 11 continuous years of increase, America’s life expectancy decreased from 78.9 years in 2014 to 78.6 in 2017.
Since 1999, the country’s suicide rate has increased by 33 percent. The CDC reports that in 2017 alone, 47,000 Americans committed suicide, while another 70,000 people died from drug overdoses, 80 percent of which were related to opioid abuse.
Economics professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton first discovered a disturbing trend among non-college educated, working class, white Americans in 2015; they were dying prematurely at astonishing rates.
https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/03/the-unhappy-states-of-america/555800/
The overall results show a nation where well-being is in sharp decline. From 2016 to 2017, America saw its largest year-over-year drop in well-being in the 10 years that Gallup has tracked these data.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-life-expectancy-election-idUSKCN1B22DI
Life expectancy tied to voting choices in last U.S. presidential election.
Voters in counties where life expectancy has declined in recent years were more likely to vote for Trump, a new study suggests.
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