The urban-rural death divide is getting alarmingly wider for working-age Americans
arstechnica.com
On this metric, rural areas saw dramatically worsening trends compared with urban populations. In 1999, the NCM rate in 25- to 54-year-olds in rural areas was 6 percent higher than the NCM rate of this age group in urban areas. In 2019, the gap had grown to a whopping 43 percent. In fact, prime work