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Earning Less and Dying Younger: How the Growing Strain on America's Middle Class Is Pummeling Our Health

By Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. Posted September 4, 2008.


Last year was a weak financial time for working families, and a new report shows it reflected in our health.
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Maggie Mahar is a fellow at the Century Foundation and the author of Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much (Harper/Collins 2006).

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