Study: Blacks Much More Likely to Experience Deaths in Family Than Whites

A new study shows black Americans age 30 and younger are twice as likely as whites to experience the deaths of at least two family members, leading to such problems as stress, financial disaster and unstable families. The experts from the University of Texas at Austin and Michigan State University wrote about their findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They call it a "largely overlooked area of racial disadvantage." The study found that...

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