National trends in recent decades reveal an “emerging mortality penalty” for people living outside of metropolitan areas, Mississippi State researchers are reporting in American Journal of Public Health. For the first time in recent years, university scientists have identified data showing that more than 40,000 more people living in rural counties die annually than...
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Banco Azteca announced today the launch of a comprehensive consumer finance education program that uses comics to educate consumers at the "bottom of the pyramid". The program includes nine monthly installments of the comic book series that discusses family budgets, savings, credit, investing, insurance, bank technology, products and the general concept of...