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“The four-year college degree is increasingly dividing America.”
This is among the conclusions of a book I was introduced to by Bob Bradway, the CEO of Amgen. The book, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, doesn’t dismiss higher education as a valuable pathway for many people, but it recognizes that it shouldn’t be the only alternative.
The book’s authors, Princeton University professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton, explore the rising death rate for middle-aged white people in America. They label the three main causes—suicides, drug overdoses, and alcoholic liver disease—as “deaths of despair.”
That so many people in America are dying from causes related to the opioid epidemic is, tragically, no longer a shock. ...
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