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"We have new drugs and medical technologies that have been very, very effective and successful," [MPC Member] Wrigley-Field explains, adding, "you would hope that that would be true in 60 years of medical progress."

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“These deaths are driven by long-running crises in drug overdose, gun violence, car collisions, and preventable cardiometabolic deaths," says MPC member Elizabeth Wrigley-Field.

Excess deaths, meaning the number of deaths above the expected death rate, spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic and remain higher than peer nations in 2023, particularly for adults aged 25-44.

Adults aged 25-44 in the U.S. are 2.5 times more likely to die than international peers.

In 2023, a staggering 45.9% of U.S. deaths under 65 years old would have been prevented if we had the death rate of other wealthy nations.

The study found U.S. death rates were one-third higher than death rates in 21 other wealthy nations, including Canada, Finland, Iceland and Portugal.

There were over 1.5 million “missing Americans” in 2022 and 2023—deaths that would have been averted if US mortality rates matched those of peer countries. MPC member Elizabeth Wrigley-Field is a coauthor on this new study:

MPC Member Ragui Assaad was recently interviewed about Egypt’s National Employment Strategy. He warns measuring and addressing unemployment rates need to account both for people dropping out of the labor force and upcoming demographic changes.

Economic headwinds faced by millennials, the largest portion of the workforce, has lead to lower home ownership rates, less wealth, and fewer kids. Check out this interview with MPC member Janna Johnson:

Take a listen at 12:30 pm today to @MPRnews .to catch our very own Janna Johnson talking with Nina Moini about the potential impact of a 3rd economic crisis for millenials.

It’s rare for cities to have zoning rules that treat thrift stores differently from other retail, said [MPC Member] @evanrobertsnz. “Cities are generally trying to move towards a more flexible approach to regulating specific uses."

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New study out today in @pnasnexus by MPC member @warre046 shows removing undocumented residents from census data used for apportionment would have had no meaningful impact on party representation in the House or the outcome of presidential elections.

"Our findings underscore the urgent need for comprehensive policies to address the structural factors driving worsening health among recent generations of young adults,” said author Andrew Stokes of Boston University.

Other important contributing causes were a variety of natural causes, including cardiometabolic and nutritional causes, and a variety of other external causes, including transport deaths.

Drug-related deaths are the single largest cause of 2023 excess mortality, compared with the mortality that would have been expected had earlier trends continued.

The new research out in @JAMANetworkOpen found: For early adults, there was a large jump in the death rate between 2019 and 2021, which are considered the core pandemic years. In 2023, the death rate remained nearly 20% higher than in 2019.