in America's Exploding Pipe Dream Charles blow offers a link to this chart from the Bertelsmann Stiftung foundation of Germany report entitled “Social Justice in the OECD — How Do the Member States Compare?”
The report provides 7 dimensions of social and economic justice across 31 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The nations are given color coded rankings for each dimension.
For the United States:
- it is bottom 15 on the rating for intergenerational justice
- it is in the bottom ten on the ratings for Senior Citizen poverty rate, public expenditure on pre-primary education as a percentage of GDP, and health rating (inclusiveness, quality of service, and perceived health between highest and lowest incomes).
- it is the bottom 5 on the ratings for income inequality (GINI index),child poverty, overall poverty, overall poverty prevention, and overall social justice.
On Overall Social Justice Rating, the US ranks above only Greece, Chile, Mexico and Turkey. That means it is below the likes of Slovakia, Portugal, and Hungary.
Somehow I look at that chart, and I am certainly not proud to be an American.
The only questions is whether I should be ashamed.
I am.
What about you?
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