Tuesday, January 3, 2017

In the news: Chillicothe (Ross County) Ohio


Source:  Wikipedia


No longer ‘Mayberry’: A small Ohio city fights an epidemic of self-destruction.  (Washington Post, 12/29/2016)
These women are trying to survive an epidemic of self-destruction in small-town and rural America. Death rates have risen sharply among whites, particularly women, particularly those with a high school education or less — the white working class that played a key role in the November election. Last year, overall life expectancy in the United States fell for the first time since 1993, when HIV was rampant.

Source:  CNN 


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