Source: ‘Policy Murder’: Research Shows Poverty Is 4th Leading Cause of Death in US
Summary
Poverty is linked to at least 183,000 deaths in the US in 2019 among people aged 15 or older. This makes inadequate income the nation’s fourth-leading mortality driver that year. Poverty silently killed 10 times more people than all the homicides in 2019.Fact
💰 Poverty, which is defined as having less than half of the median US income, was associated with greater mortality than many more visible causes in 2019 – 10 times more deaths than homicide, 4.7 times more deaths than firearms, 3.9 times more deaths than suicide, and 2.6 times more deaths than drug overdose.