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American life expectancy is lower than that of Cuba, Lebanon, and Chechnya.

The gap is drawn starkly along lines of class, wealth, race. The second graph is so stark and horrifying I thought it was fake at first, but I found the source and I'm starting to think it's real.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/accounting-for-the-widening-mortality-gap-between-american-adults-with-and-without-a-ba/

https://alaskapublic.org/2023/03/27/live-free-and-die-the-sad-state-of-u-s-life-expectancy/