New research has found a link between rising imports from China and a wave of suicides and drug-related deaths across the U.S.
The study, by Federal Reserve economist Justin Pierce and Peter Schott of Yale University, adds a new piece to the puzzle of rising mortality among middle-aged white men in many parts of the U.S., as well as the surge of antitrade rhetoric during the presidential election.
It finds a “statistically significant relative increase in suicide…concentrated among white males” from 2000, a year that saw Congress grant China permanent normal trade relations, which helped codify China’s status as a rising trade Read More

Source:: wsj