EdSource Today: Life expectancy plummets for whites without a high school diploma

By Louis Freedberg

New research dramatically shows the value of an education: The more you have, the longer you are likely to live.

Research has shown that people without a high school diploma have higher mortality rates than those who graduate from high school. That was particularly the case for African Americans, whose life expectancy has lagged far behind both whites and Hispanics.

But a compelling new study from the University of Illinois at Chicago, reported in the New York Times, shows that the life expectancy of whites without a high school diploma has plummeted by four years between 1990 and 2008. The decrease in life expectancy was greatest among women:  an extraordinary five years.

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