10 Reasons the U.S. is Declining

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10 Reasons the U.S. is Declining *.* 10/26/15 (Mon) 00:32:10 No.765

10 Reasons the U.S. is Declining

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/10-reasons-us-declining

Is America in decline?

That’s the position of Drs. Hershey Friedman of the City University of New York and Sarah Hertz of Empire State College.

In their paper – “Is the United States Still the Best Country in the World? Think Again” – the authors argue that America’s ranking in the following 10 key areas show that its status as a world power is slipping.

1) Percentage of People Living Below the Poverty Line: https://archive.is/oWBMv

U.S. Rank: 35th best out of 157 countries.

Among those with a lower poverty rate: Taiwan, Lithuania, China, Vietnam.

2) Children Living in Poverty: https://archive.is/hlfDi

U.S. Rank: 34 out of 35 countries surveyed.

Among those with a lower % of children living in poverty: Australia, Canada, Japan.

3) Income Inequality: https://archive.is/lIHvH

U.S. Rank: 4th worst in the world.

Only countries who are worse: Chile, Mexico, Turkey.

4) Middle Class (defined as Median Wealth per Adult): https://archive.is/IdOrT

U.S. Rank: 27th (median wealth per U.S. adult = $38,786)

Among those who best us: Australia, Canada, Qatar, and Taiwan.

5. Happiness: http:/unsdsn.org/wpcontent/uploads/2014/02/WorldHappinessReport2013_online.pdf

U.S. Rank: 17th out of 36 countries on the 2013 World Happiness Report.

Among those who best us: Denmark, Israel, and Panama.

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6. GDP Per Capita: https://archive.is/DtaSF

U.S. Rank: 14th out of 228 countries.

Among those who best us: Qatar, Singapore, and Switzerland.

7. Education (based on the international PISA test of 15 year-olds): https://archive.is/K7eHF

U.S. Rank in Reading: 17th

U.S. Rank in Math: 26th

U.S. Rank in Science: 21st

8. Health: http://images.businessweek.com/bloomberg/pdfs/WORLDS_HEALTHIEST_COUNTRIES.pdf

U.S. Rank 33 out of 145 countries.

Among those who best us: Singapore, Spain, Greece, Cuba.

9. Prison Population: https://archive.is/N9YIp

U.S. Rank: 1st out of 224 countries

Note: 2,217,000 people are incarcerated in the U.S. In China, it’s 1,657,812 people. In Russia, 673,818 people.

10. Social Progress Index (social well-being based on 52 economic indicators such as literacy rates, access to clean water, personal safety, etc.): https://archive.is/vUMoF

U.S. Rank: 16 out of 133 countries.

Among those who best us: Norway, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Austria.

Goodbye Middle Class /killcen/ 10/26/15 (Mon) 20:25:00 No.771

According to brand new numbers that were just released by the Social Security Administration, 51 percent of all workers in the United States make less than $30,000 a year. Let that number sink in for a moment. You can’t support a middle class family in America today on just $2,500 a month – especially after taxes are taken out. And yet more than half of all workers in this country make less than that each month. In order to have a thriving middle class, you have got to have an economy that produces lots of middle class jobs, and that simply is not happening in America today.

You can find the report that the Social Security Administration just releasedright here. The following are some of the numbers that really stood out for me…

-38 percent of all American workers made less than $20,000 last year.

-51 percent of all American workers made less than $30,000 last year.

-62 percent of all American workers made less than $40,000 last year.

-71 percent of all American workers made less than $50,000 last year.

That first number is truly staggering. The federal poverty level for a family of five is $28,410, and yet almost 40 percent of all American workers do not even bring in $20,000 a year.

https://archive.is/brhfi