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http://www.salon.com/2014/04/09/global_rankings_study_america_in_warp_speed_decline_partner/

If America needed a reminder that it is fast becoming a second-rate nation, and that every economic policy of the Republican Party is wrongheaded, it got one this week with the release of the Social Progress Index (SPI).

Harvard business professor Michael E. Porter, who earlier developed the Global Competitiveness Report, designed the SPI. A new way to look at the success of countries, the SPI studies 132 nations and evaluates 54 social and environmental indicators for each country that matter to real people. Rather than measuring a country’s success by its per capita GDP, the index is based on an array of data reflecting suicide, ecosystem sustainability, property rights, access to healthcare and education, gender equality, attitudes toward immigrants and minorities, religious freedom, nutrition, infrastructure and more.

The index measures the livability of each country. People everywhere depend on and care about similar things. “We all need clean water. We all want to feel safe and live without fear. People everywhere want to get an education and improve their lives,” says Porter. But economic growth alone doesn’t guarantee these things.

While the U.S. enjoys the second highest per capita GDP of $45,336, it ranks in an underperforming 16th place overall. It gets worse. The U.S. ranks 70th in health, 69th in ecosystem sustainability, 39th in basic education, 34th in access to water and sanitation and 31st in personal safety.

More surprising is the fact that despite being the home country of global tech heavyweights Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Oracle, and so on, the U.S. ranks a disappointing 23rd in access to the Internet. “It’s astonishing that for a country that has Silicon Valley, lack of access to information is a red flag,” notes Michael Green, executive director of the Social Progress Imperative, which oversees the index.

If this index is an affront to your jingoistic sensibilities, the U.S. remains in first place for the number of incarcerated citizens per capita, adult onset diabetes and for believing in angels.



My plan is to accumulate a lot of money and get out of this sinking ship at some point.

Thoughts?
 

chalupa

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This study is skewed by all the poor people and minorities. I wonder how we 1%ers rank worldwide...
 

FenderBender

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Most NCAA basketball teams would be happy to be in the sweet sixteen. I'm going to count this as a victory. We did better than Duke.
 

reggie jax

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i tried to post a video related to us being so far behind in terms of net access but this site wouldn't let me cause of my reputation, so i just decided to sum the video up with a few words instead.
 

Hambone

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It is what it is...AMERICA is a monster, and it it will be defeated...in one way or another. Liove it, but it is wrong. So worried about other peoples bussiness

Know it's the best....I have nio place in my heart for it's defeat....but all great things come to an end
 
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