"It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. The folks at the Environmental Protection Agency have decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.

"Nearly a million dollars less, if EPA calculations are to believed. According to the agency, the "value of a statistical life" is 6.9 million in today's dollars, down from 7.8 million five years ago."

http://www.9news.com/news/watercoole...5514&catid=337

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