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...rising unemployment means fewer people commute to work or because people are trying to save on gas - but also of less easily explained drops in factors such as cardiovascular and liver disease, influenza and pneumonia. In one groundbreaking study in 2000 on the impact of joblessness, for example, Christopher Ruhm, an economist at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, examined statewide mortality fluctuations in the U.S. between 1972 and 1991 and found that a 1% rise in a state's unemployment rate led to a 0.6% decrease in total mortality. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Ruhm of the University of North Carolina says the data linking recessions to drops in mortality are not yet strong enough to influence macroeconomic policies. However, he believes there are elements of the research that could prove useful to lawmakers and individuals. "For instance, we might want to have traffic enforcement efforts increase when the economy is doing well, or we might want to raise taxes on alcohol and cigarettes," he says. "For individuals, when you get a great job opportunity and you know you're going to be working really hard, you could build in plans to protect your...
Herman D. Ruhm Jr., 53, resigned after ten years as president of Bates Manufacturing Co., of Lewiston, Me., to become president of Burlington Industries Inc. Ruhm, who was on the losing side in the recent proxy fight for control of Bates that was won by Consolidated Textiles' Lester Martin, graduated from Yale ('23), got his first job in a Nevada mine, leaving after a year to work for Standard Oil (N.J.). He entered textiles in 1928 with Associated Dry Goods, moved to Bates in 1937, will serve as deputy to Burlington's board chairman, Spencer Love...
...HERBERT RUHM Hastings-on-Hudson...
...large pitching squad. Besides Coxe and Selleck, who pitched against the University last spring, there is a squad of eight candidates, of whom Cooley and Hartnet are doing the best work. Captain Peters will do the catching for the Blue nine in the big games, but Dann and Ruhm, who were on the yearling team last spring, have been showing up well during Captain Peters' recent illness; and will probably be used in some of the minor games...