But the U.S. is also the only rich country in the world where the mortality rate has been going up, not down. Much of that trend is driven by men without college degrees in America’s heartland, according to Brookings. "...and almost 20% of prime aged males are out of the labor force"

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This is the same Brookings Institute that literally petitions for H1-B for itself :

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/The-Brookings-Institution/537309_Visa.htm

and routinely spins the H1-B visa program to the liking of its corporate sponsers:

https://cis.org/Miano/Brookings-Claims-H1B-Demand-Not-Supported-Their-Data

What does this mean? It means when I go home to the small town I am from I find H1-B Visa holders working as cashiers in my local gorcery store. That would be the very jobs the 20% of unemployed men who are killing themselves could have worked at.

Brookings is also a big lover of outsourcing: https://www.brookings.edu/research/offshoring-service-jobs-bane-or-boon-and-what-to-do/

Businesses that outsource in the global economy can boost productivity and wages—if the outsourcing is driven by market forces, not by a need to game costly laws and lawsuits. But legal and regulatory considerations, not just a quest for cheap labor, sometimes do influence the sourcing patterns of firms, including their contracts with offshore suppliers. Because this process can be inefficient, policymakers need to address it. But pleas for better “corporate citizenship” are no substitute for fundamental correction of the nation’s regulatory programs and legal practices.

As if Brookings gives a shit about these regular guys. Good guys. Guys who should be raising families and playing horseshoes and fixing up their cars and going to church and being solid citrizens in every sense of that word. Yeah, Brookings hates those deplorables.

Brookings like every other "think tank" on the left and the right- Cato Institute comes to mind here- is the soft policy arm whose work product is designed to give intellectual cover to whatever its billionaire funders want and what their billionaire funders want is a bunch of dead Americans, to spend the week on their yacht and a whore.

Like the rest of the elites they're happy these guys are killing themselves, they're racist, sexist xenophbes who otherwise would be voting from Trump.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2019/08/14/trump-and-racism-what-do-the-data-say/