2008-07-10 American Life Worth Less Today
<hide> <let name=data index=Date>2008-07-10}}{{#vardefine:Topics|\value of human life\Associated Press}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Topics}}{{#vardefine:Topics.disp|\value of human life\Associated Press}} <let name=data index=URL>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/10/american-life-worth-less_n_112030.html}}{{#vardefine:Title%7C American Life Worth Less Today: AP}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Title}}{{#vardefine:Title.disp| American Life Worth Less Today: AP}}{{#vardefine:Text|“It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't 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.}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Text}}{{#vardefine:Text.disp|“It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't 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.}} {{#xploop:{{#var:Topics}}||}} {{#xploop:{{#var:keylist}}|\n* $s$: \o#var:$s$.disp\c}}