According to a New York Times article today, the United States has slipped dramatically in rankings issued in the Social Progress Index. First issued in 2011 the Index ranked the U.S. at No. 19. The latest Index ranks our country at No. 28. Indications are we are still slipping.
The index rates some 50 metrics of well-being in areas such as education, access to health care, and even tolerance for and treatment of minorities.
With this new index the United States is behind the well-known Western nations, running on a par with Albania by some measures. We can be sure that America is not the country some people think it is.
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