Spencer Cox: “Utah is still an outlier [in terms of deaths of despair].”

“… steep decline, and demographic concerns now present one of the gravest threats to our shared future. All while deaths of despair have skyrocketed. But not here. At least not yet. Utah is still an outlier [in terms of deaths of despair]. Utah has stayed weird in the best possible way. Here we still believe that our greatest achievements lie not in our own success, but in that of our children and grandchildren and the communities we build.” (07:20–07:23)

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