Poverty is fourth largest killer in America

 Hartmann Report -   The Journal of the American Medical Association published a new study finding that poverty is the fourth largest killer of Americans. And by poverty, they’re not just talking about the profoundly poor or homeless: for the purposes of this study they defined poverty as everybody living on less than the 50 percent median of income in the nation.

The study was unambiguous, noting: “Current poverty was associated with greater mortality than major causes, such as accidents, lower respiratory diseases, and stroke. In 2019, current poverty was also associated with greater mortality than many far more visible causes—10 times as many deaths as homicide, 4.7 times as many deaths as firearms, 3.9 times as many deaths as suicide, and 2.6 times as many deaths as drug overdose.”