22 Questions
What percentage of American adults do not have college degrees?
Almost two-thirds
What has happened to American life expectancy compared to other rich countries?
It has significantly decreased
What is the main factor demarcating the division between two Americas?
Educational attainment
How do European nations generally finance their health care?
Through government support
What harm do Republican-controlled state legislatures cause, according to the text?
Passing corporate-friendly measures
What could be done to improve the situation for less-educated Americans?
Expand affordable housing in successful cities
What does the text suggest as a low-cost policy that could have large benefits?
Eliminating employer-funded health insurance
Which two countries had the highest life expectancy before the United States?
Japan and Switzerland
What was the average life expectancy at age 25 for individuals with four-year college degrees in 1992?
54 years
What has been happening to the life expectancy of individuals without college degrees since around 2010?
It has been decreasing
What has been happening to the wealth distribution between those with and without college degrees in the United States?
It has been shifting towards those with college degrees
Americans with four-year college degrees are ______ economically, while those without are struggling.
flourishing
Almost two-thirds of American adults do not have ______ degrees
college
The United States has slowly, gradually and then ______ fallen behind.
precipitously
European nations generally finance their much less costly health care through government support and not through what is essentially a flat tax on ______
employment
Other countries do not have Republican-controlled state legislatures passing corporate-friendly measures — on minimum wages, right-to-work laws, guns, pollution or tobacco taxes — that harm the communities, lives and health of ______ Americans.
less-educated
Nor do they have Republican governors advising some constituents not to get ______.
vaccinated
What we don't know is whether this improvement will last or peter out as the market weakens, as happened in the ______.
past
Life expectancy at age 25 for individuals with four-year college degrees rose to ______ years on the eve of the pandemic
59
Life expectancy at age 25 for individuals without college degrees reached its peak around ______
2010
The decline in life expectancy for individuals without college degrees has been an ______ disaster
unfolding
The United States is failing its ______ people
less-educated
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