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

By Maggie Mahar, Health Beat
Posted on September 4, 2008, Printed on September 4, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/97489/

This article originally appeared on Health Beat.

Last week, the Census Bureau came out with a report that provides a compelling window on poverty and health in America.

It's somewhat modestly titled "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007." I would suggest it deserves a headline that does justice to its sweep, perhaps "Connecting the Dots: Health and Poverty, America's Shifting Priorities, 1960-2007."