Adrienne Wooley

“The ability to earn a bachelor’s degree is one of the single most important factors protecting Americans against deaths from addiction, poverty, and hopelessness, what the economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case call deaths of despair. Higher education is a stronger link to a longer life than even household income, according to Deaton and Case.[1] A college diploma, in fact, is correlated to an extension of the average American’s lifespan by eight and a half years.[2]”
― Beth Macy, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America