WASHINGTON – As the gap in life expectancy between the highest and lowest earners in the U.S. has widened over time, high earners have disproportionately received larger lifetime benefits from ...

Older people who earn less than $20,000 a year die nine years sooner on average than those who earn $120,000 or more. That's the conclusion of a new analysis that shows a strong connection between ...

As I have noted in a recent blog post, life expectancies at older ages have increased notably in the US over the past several decades, providing justification for raising formal retirement ages in ...

The current landscape of public health in the United States is marked by a far-reaching attack on foundational scientific principles and institutions, threatening decades of progress in combating ...

According to the CDC’s latest data, U.S. life expectancy at birth reached 79.0 years of age as of 2024, the highest on record and a full 0.6-year increase from the prior year. More relevant for ...

After more than a century of steady progress, new research warns that the world’s life expectancy boom is slowing, largely because improvements in early-life mortality have already been achieved.

MADISON, Wis. – A new study co-authored by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor finds that life expectancy gains made by high-income countries in the first half of the 20th century have slowed ...