The U.S. has the biggest lifespan-health span gap in the world. New study shows we're living longer lives — but not in good health. Story by Natalie Rahhal • 1mo.

Stacey Benningfield, project manager for the SH 45 Gap Study, works for RK&K, one of a few engineering firms involved in the study. “We literally came to the first open house with a blank map.

In 2000, the beginning of the study period, the gap between healthspan and lifespan was 8.5 years; it climbed to 9.6 years by 2019, for a 13 percent increase over the two-decade study period.

In the study, published Thursday in The Lancet, ... The gap widened to 13.9 years in 2010, jumped to 18.9 years in 2020, and now in the latest data, 20.4 years in 2021.

In this February 2021 photo, activists appeal for a $15 minimum wage near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. A new study says the income gap between white and Black young adults was narrower for ...

College enrollment was 6 percentage points higher among class of 2023 graduates with K2C accounts compared with the control cohort — 60% versus 54%, according to the study. Those gains were doubled ...

According to LIMRA’s 2024 Insurance Barometer Study, 102 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured, ... Closing the life insurance coverage gap starts with education.

New study finds how the gender gap is framed affects perceptions of it. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250102162632.htm.

A study released by the Texas Women's Foundation found a significant wage gap between women and men. And women of color are the majority of the state's female population.