1.0link112030<![CDATA[American Life Worth Less Today: AP]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/10/american-life-worth-less_n_112030.htmlWASHINGTON — It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.
The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May _ a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago.