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Kenny Stancil

Study: GOP policies are killing people

Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott and Glenn Youngkin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Republican Party's regressive policies are not just unpopular, but a new study out Wednesday suggests they are also deadly to those who live under them.

Working-age mortality rates have been rising for decades across the United States, but premature deaths are more pronounced in states where "conservative" policies predominate and less common in states that have adopted more "liberal" policies, according to peer-reviewed research published in PLOS ONE.

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