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What percentage of American adults do not have college degrees?
What percentage of American adults do not have college degrees?
What has happened to American life expectancy compared to other rich countries?
What has happened to American life expectancy compared to other rich countries?
What is the main factor demarcating the division between two Americas?
What is the main factor demarcating the division between two Americas?
How do European nations generally finance their health care?
How do European nations generally finance their health care?
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What harm do Republican-controlled state legislatures cause, according to the text?
What harm do Republican-controlled state legislatures cause, according to the text?
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What could be done to improve the situation for less-educated Americans?
What could be done to improve the situation for less-educated Americans?
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What does the text suggest as a low-cost policy that could have large benefits?
What does the text suggest as a low-cost policy that could have large benefits?
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Which two countries had the highest life expectancy before the United States?
Which two countries had the highest life expectancy before the United States?
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What was the average life expectancy at age 25 for individuals with four-year college degrees in 1992?
What was the average life expectancy at age 25 for individuals with four-year college degrees in 1992?
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What has been happening to the life expectancy of individuals without college degrees since around 2010?
What has been happening to the life expectancy of individuals without college degrees since around 2010?
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What has been happening to the wealth distribution between those with and without college degrees in the United States?
What has been happening to the wealth distribution between those with and without college degrees in the United States?
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Americans with four-year college degrees are ______ economically, while those without are struggling.
Americans with four-year college degrees are ______ economically, while those without are struggling.
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Almost two-thirds of American adults do not have ______ degrees
Almost two-thirds of American adults do not have ______ degrees
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The United States has slowly, gradually and then ______ fallen behind.
The United States has slowly, gradually and then ______ fallen behind.
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European nations generally finance their much less costly health care through government support and not through what is essentially a flat tax on ______
European nations generally finance their much less costly health care through government support and not through what is essentially a flat tax on ______
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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.
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.
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Nor do they have Republican governors advising some constituents not to get ______.
Nor do they have Republican governors advising some constituents not to get ______.
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What we don't know is whether this improvement will last or peter out as the market weakens, as happened in the ______.
What we don't know is whether this improvement will last or peter out as the market weakens, as happened in the ______.
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Life expectancy at age 25 for individuals with four-year college degrees rose to ______ years on the eve of the pandemic
Life expectancy at age 25 for individuals with four-year college degrees rose to ______ years on the eve of the pandemic
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Life expectancy at age 25 for individuals without college degrees reached its peak around ______
Life expectancy at age 25 for individuals without college degrees reached its peak around ______
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The decline in life expectancy for individuals without college degrees has been an ______ disaster
The decline in life expectancy for individuals without college degrees has been an ______ disaster
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The United States is failing its ______ people
The United States is failing its ______ people
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