A variety of causes since 1999. What does this tell us about today . The Miles Per Hour way of death. Its the inside story. Welcome to inside story, im ray suarez. The new numbers, published in the proceedings of the National Academy of sciences turn what you think you know about this country upside down. In 1850, an americans Life Expectancy at birth was barely 40 years, and 100 years later, 65. And half a century later, another decade had been added on. Most of the increase was due to increase in infant mortality. But even allowing for that, you might assume that the progress would go on and on. And for sure, conversation busy medicine, retirement and aging are all premised on the idea that the trend line would simply go higher and higher. Thats why a surge showing a startling increase in the death rate of middleaged white americans is surprising. More middleaged americans are dying than before. Specifically those without higher education. Those are the findings by princeton economis
Carolina, texas, kentucky, maryland and West Virginia plus an overview report on the region. Next month, we will publish reports on northeastern and midwestern states. The researchers who have produced the reports come from a variety of disciplines. Some are political scientists, economists, sociologists, Public Health specialists and some of many other nationalities, i suppose. All of them have a deep understanding of the states they are studying, because they live in these states and have studied the states for many years. They share a deep interest in understanding and documenting the changes produced by the aca. Some of you know, conducting Field Research by coordinating longtime tradition at the Rockefeller Institute. We have studies, welfare reform, medicaid and many othernnational incentives. The studies vary a lot. A few basic elements are found in all of them. Yp8n first, they focus on implementation, on how state and local bureaucracies and private organizations put the new r
Three day ceasefire. Oscar pistorius defense compares the athlete to an abuse victim in closing arguments at his murder trial. A first for turkey as the president is to be elected by the public this weekend. Leading the race, the current Prime Minister. Hello. Thanks for being with us. An extraordinary event and International World emergency. Thats what the World Health Organization calls the other goal outbreak. The agency is predicting its likely to go on for months and get worse before it gets better. Almost a thousand have died already as a result of the disease. Nick childs reports. The head of the World Health Organization says this is the largest, most severe, complex outbreak of ebola since identified four decades ago a. Now its declared a National Health emergency with a plea for help for those countries affected. The conclusions and my decisions are a clear call for international solidarity. Countries affected to date simply do not have the capacity to manage the outbreak of
Starting at eight eastern on cspan. Cspan2, providing live coverage of the u. S. Senate floor proceedings and key Public Policy events. And every weekend, booktv. Now for 15 years the only Television Network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2, created by the cable tv industry and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Iraq war veteran Travis Fugate says he may have gone p blind because his v. A. Center doctor didnt have the right information. Mr. Fugate says the v. A. s failure to fix issues was depressing. Veterans Affairs Department officials also testified at this hearing with members questioning why it was taking so long for the departments records to mirror the defense departments. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to welcome everybody to todays hearing titled assessing inadequacies in v. A. Dat
England. Ten stormrelated deaths were reported from the midwest to northeast. Some areas got over a foot of snow and there is snow cover as far south as new new mexico. The storm as disrupted travel since sunday more than 7,300 flights cancelled nationwide. It snowed overnight in maine where winter storm warnings are in effect. Some new england coastal areas got up to a foot and a half of snow including parts of boston which set a record for the snowiest in history. Kris van cleave is in boston. Reporter the super bowl champion touched down at boston tfs snowy airport monday night. The parade is now scheduled for wednesday. I feel like im in the north pole or something. Reporter boston was one of the last stops for the huge winter storm. Detroit reported the third biggest snowfall on record and chicago received its heaviest. We are seeing a record response. After getting hit by two major snow events in a week the focus here in boston is on getting all of this snow out of the streets ci