How much is your drinking habit costing the economy?

Just how much does your drinking habit cost society? Wonkblog’s Chris Ingraham developed a calculator to answer this all-important question. Ingraham uses data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which shows that drinking costs American society $249 billion a year, mostly due to early mortality due to alcohol, lost productivity and absenteeism at […]

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