We're Number.......... 16!

Boreas · #1 08-05-2016, 01:25 PM

This is pretty tough to take. The richest country in the world is content to have a third of its children living in poverty. And who's leading the way? All those pinko soshulist countries in Europe, that's who.

Remember when Rubio said that Bernie would be a fine president...... for Sweden? Their child poverty rate is little more than a third of ours.

Source: UNICEF- https://www.unicef-irc.org/publicati...12-eng-web.pdf

Pio1980 · #2 08-05-2016, 01:31 PM

Sure, but we have guns and freedom here, or something.

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Dondilion · #3 08-05-2016, 04:31 PM

UK with all its strutting is a disaster.

Boreas · #4 08-05-2016, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Dondilion

UK with all its strutting is a disaster.

And still doing better than us.

BlueStreak · #5 08-06-2016, 08:31 AM

It's because we're still deeply concerned about the happiness of our billionaires.

modge · #6 08-06-2016, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by BlueStreak

It's because we're still deeply concerned about the happiness of our billionaires.

Exactly. But that is the same the whole world over.

Pio1980 · #7 08-06-2016, 10:38 AM

The Golden Rule circle of life.

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Tom Joad · #8 08-06-2016, 01:07 PM

I just got back from Canada and it did not appear to me that there was anywhere near the economic disparity there that we have in the U.S. Yet I was surprised to see that they did not appear as one of the 15 countries above us in the chart. So I check inside the report and found that their child poverty rate is in the low 20's while ours was in the low 30's. So obviously they belong ahead of us. I wonder how many more there are?

CarlV · #9 08-06-2016, 02:14 PM

We have gone from 37 to 38th in infant mortality last year and we (Congress) can't even fund Zika prevention which should be a no brainer. Kinda just like when Raygun ignored AIDS, guess the dumbass figured ignore it and it will go away?

Carl

Boreas · #10 08-06-2016, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I just got back from Canada and it did not appear to me that there was anywhere near the economic disparity there that we have in the U.S. Yet I was surprised to see that they did not appear as one of the 15 countries above us in the chart. So I check inside the report and found that their child poverty rate is in the low 20's while ours was in the low 30's. So obviously they belong ahead of us. I wonder how many more there are?

Thereby making us #17.

At best.

Actually, in 2013 we were #34.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...s-ranked-34th/

In 2013 we were at about 23%. And since then, the rate has risen to 32%, an increase of 39%.

Note that Italy is ahead of us and they have the highest childhood poverty rate in Europe.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...ys-unicef.html