“The United States is different. In nearly every other high-income country, people have both become richer over the last three decades and been able to enjoy substantially longer lifespans. But not in the United States. Even as average incomes have risen, much of the economic gains have gone to the affluent — and life expectancy has risen only three years since 1990. There is no other developed country that has suffered such a stark slowdown in lifespans” READ MORE

IMHO, however, I think we are going to see an ‘AMERICAN RENAISSANCE' in 2021, with a new. democratic president and even a democratic majority in the US Congress…?

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