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What Killed Hope in America?

This article explores the factors contributing to the U.S. drug overdose crisis, including social infrastructure, economy, and family dynamics. It highlights the connection between economic and family distress and higher drug overdose rates, while also emphasizing the role of social capital-promoting institutions. The article discusses the decline in upward mobility and its impact on hope in America, as well as the correlation between despair and the 2016 presidential election. Finally, it proposes a Marshall Plan for the 21st century and suggests taxing the rich as a means to fund it.

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What Killed Hope in America?

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  1. What Killed Hope in America? Shannon M. Monnat Associate Professor of Sociology Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion Co-Director, Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab Syracuse University

  2. The U.S. Epidemic of Despair

  3. The U.S. Opioid CrisisHow Did We Get Here?The Spark vs. The Kindling

  4. The Spark

  5. The Spread of the Drug Overdose Crisis 2000-02 2007-09 2014-16

  6. The Kindling: The Factors that Best Explain Why Some Places Have Higher Drug Overdose Rates than Others SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE ECONOMY FAMILY The key force is (dis)connection.

  7. Equivalent to 40,000 excess deaths over 10 years Drug Mortality Rates are Higher in Places with More Economic and Family Distress and Lower in Places with More Social Capital Promoting Institutions

  8. What Killed Hope in America? Cumulative Change in Real Weekly Earnings of Working Age Adults 18-64, 1963-2017 Chances for Upward Mobility are in Free Fall Children born in the 1980s had about a 50% chance of earning more than their parents by age 30, compared to a 90% chance among children born in the 1940s.

  9. Trump Performed Best in Places with the Most Despair Citation: Monnat, Shannon M. and David L. Brown. 2017. More than a Rural Revolt: Landscapes of Despair and the 2016 Presidential Election. Journal of Rural Studies 55:227-236.; Overperformance is measured as the percentage difference in Trump (2016) vs. Romney (2012) vote share.

  10. How do we bring back hope? A Marshall Plan for the 21st Century How do we pay for it? TAX THE RICH!

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