Is that really the case?
"What’s remarkable, however, is how much life expectancy increased between 1990 and 2010 in counties of all poverty levels"
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/05/the...
"What’s remarkable, however, is how much life expectancy increased between 1990 and 2010 in counties of all poverty levels"
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/05/the...
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/11/11405954/health-life-expectancy...
The 2000-2010 increase in your source is ~2 years for the poorest men and ~1 year for the poorest women. The 2001-2014 increase in my source is ~.3 for poor men and ~0 for poor women.
That seems like a really big gap, and I don't have a good way to reconcile them.