Difference between revisions of "2008-07-10 American Life Worth Less Today"
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<let name=data index=Title> American Life Worth Less Today: AP</let> | <let name=data index=Title> American Life Worth Less Today: AP</let> | ||
− | + | <let name=data index=Text>“It's not just the American dollar that's [[US economy|losing value]]. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't [[value of human life|worth]] what it used to be. .. The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the [[Environmental Protection Agency]] reckoned in May – a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago. .. The [[Associated Press]] discovered the change after a review of cost-benefit analyses over more than a dozen years.” It sounds like this figure is only used internally, not published, and has to be essentially "reverse-engineered" based on analysis of decisions the government makes.</let> | |
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