According to Anne Case and Angus Deaton (2017), the main cause of rising mortality of midlife White Americans with low education is .

The main cause of rising mortality of midlife White Americans with low education is the lack of steady, well-paying jobs for whites without college degrees has inflicted suffering, distress and social dysfunction to build up over time to cause high rate of mortality from fatalities of despair, fatality by prescriptions, excessive drinking, and taking of the own lives and this to a slowdown in progress against mortality from heart illness and cancer.

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