An old country dying young

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America was young once, and vibrant. We are now old and sick.

Compared to the old days, more of us are old, and more of us are dying young. The grim trajectory of our demography is laid out by scholar Lyman Stone in a new study, “Red, White, and Gray,” published by the American Enterprise Institute.

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