New York's Rich Living Longer Than Poor

[Rose Siding]

NEW YORK -- Life expectancy in the city's poorest neighborhoods was eight years shorter than in its wealthiest neighborhoods in 1991, up from 10 years shorter in 1990, according to a new report by the health department.

New Yorkers in the city's lowest income neighborhoods had a life expectancy of 74.5 years, compared with 81.1 years in the highest income neighborhoods, the study found. The average life expectancy in the United States is 77.2 years.

The report said New Yorkers living in neighborhoods in the south Bronx, east and central Harlem and north and central Brooklyn -- where more than one in three residents live in poverty -- were more suffer from health problems than those in wealthy neighborhoods.

Those in the poorest neighborhoods were four times more likely to report poor health overall and three times as likely to die from diabetes as those in the wealthiest neighborhoods, according to the report released Thursday.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-health-disparities,0,1211243.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[pinerow]

1. What more can anyone add....

nt

[LittleApple81]

2. That is a big Duh... but who cares? Not the powers that be.

There was a great article in the New Yorker magazine a few weeks ago where they discussed the fact that the NETHERLANDS now has the tallest (average) population in the world, and the USA has lost in the AVERAGE height contest. And he explained, sorry, don't remember the exact details, that it was NOT due to the type of inmigrants we are getting but in the LIVING STANDARDS of MOST of the population. It was a great article.

[liberalitch]

3. The gilded age has never ended.....

[Hoping4Change]

4. Studies show Canadians live longer than Americans. nt

[SoCalDem]

5. What a surprise....not

:)

[keta11]

6. Who would have thought. n/t

[taxidriver]

7. ....duh?

[papau]

8. One hell oc a Cheney'd up reporting - It say nothing of the sort - AP &

Newsday should be ashamed.

If you read the New York City study you find that under Reagan Bush the Rich were so much better off than the middle class and poor that average lifetime for the rich in the era of greed was 10 years longer than the average lifetime for middle class - in New York City, in 1990, the rich lived 10 years longer.

After 8 years of Clinton, in 2001, in New York City, the rich were no longer so fay ahead of the middle class - indeed the Middle class had caught up to the rich by 2 years and were now only 8 years behind - meaning poor/middle class lifespans were 8 years less than the life spans of the rich in the year 2001, in NYC.


Other than getting the dates wrong, the point wrong, the AP put on the wire one great story!

LOL

:-)

[llmart]

9. What a no-brainer!

n/t

[papau]

10. 8 years was what the GOP Mayor focused on in the cover memo - and

that indeed is a no brainer - the poor have always died faster than the rich.

Somehow the cover memo/transfer memo/ PR release lost track of the reports main point - that there was a betterment of the lot of the poor under Clinton - they lived 2 years longer relative to the rich - and that more of the same was needed to close the now "ONLY" 8 year gap.

[ikojo]

11. There was an article in the New York Times Magazine earlier

this year about poor blacks dying at a young age of diseases that generally afflict the elderly. The article basically posited that the twin burdens of racism and classism placed a stress on these folks that caused them to age more rapidly than middle and upper class people.

[DaveSZ]

12. New York State

NY leads the industrialized world in the rate of child poverty of any US state or any world nation.

What gives NY?

[drscm]

13. It's lucky they get the larger tax breaks because they have to

support themselves for so many more years.