Death Rates Among Young Americans Hit 15-Year High

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🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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P.M. Edition for May 17. WSJ news editor Janet Adamy explains how car accidents, homicides, suicides and drug overdoses have pushed up death rates for children and teens in the U.S. Plus, the timing of the debt ceiling crisis may have a silver lining for student loans. Charlotte Gartenberg hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Time is your most valuable resource.
0:04.0	But how much value does it have if you don't share it with someone special?
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0:20.0	As efforts to reach an agreement on raising the debt ceiling continue,
0:24.0	student loan borrowers may be spared the worst if talks fail.
0:28.0	And death rates among young Americans hit their highest level in 15 years.
0:33.0	COVID itself, while it was a very large killer of adults,
0:37.0	the number three overall killer in America starting in 2020,
0:41.0	among young people, it only played a really tiny role in this.
0:45.0	Plus, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is denied her request to stay out of prison on bail.
0:50.0	It's Wednesday, May 17th.
0:52.0	I'm Charlotte Gartenberg for the Wall Street Journal,
0:54.0	filling in for Anne Marie for Toley.
0:56.0	This is the PM edition of What's News,
0:58.0	the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.
1:09.0	President Biden is at a summit of the group of seven industrialized nations in Japan today,
1:14.0	hoping to maintain unity among allies in supporting Ukraine and countering China's economic clout.
1:19.0	But he'll leave on Sunday and scrap visits to Papua New Guinea in Australia
1:23.0	to attend to the continuing fight over the debt ceiling at home.
1:28.0	Over in Washington, Congress remains at an impasse over raising the country's roughly $31.4 trillion borrowing limit.
1:35.0	House Democrats are hoping to break that impasse.
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