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US mortality rates increase for white women
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Mar 6, 2015
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US mortality rates increase for white women
Among some of the causes driving the increase are accidental poisoning from prescription opioid drugs, cardiovascular disease and suicide.
Women drinking draft beer.
Women drinking draft beer.
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Among some of the causes driving the increase are accidental poisoning from prescription opioid drugs, cardiovascular disease and suicide.

A new report from the Urban Institute found that the morality rate for white women in the U.S. has increased. To find out what might behind the increase, we called up Laudan Aron, senior researcher at the Urban Institute and one of the report's author.