New research explores the health effects of the 1975 Voting Rights Act

“In a recent working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Yale’s Rourke O’Brien and his colleagues showed that expanding voting rights in 1975 improved material conditions for everyone and immediately reduced mortality for non-white groups.

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