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Moving neighborhoods can improve the health of poor families

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How that painful move may actually increase your life expectancy.

When low-income Americans are concentrated in substandard homes in struggling or violent neighborhoods, it has tangible consequences for well-being. Research confirms that moving families into less segregated neighborhoods improves overall health, and some communities are giving families vouchers to relocate. Special correspondent Sarah Varney of Kaiser Health News reports.

12/21/2017

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