Save the Children: US Ranked 25th

[High_Gravity]

We may not be #1 in education or healthcare, but we're #1 in self criticism or damn near it. That's one of the great things about America. Everybody is free to complain as much they desire.

I think we're tops in providing an amazingly good life for the ordinary guy compared to the rest of the world.

America offers more opportunity and social mobility than any other country. Only in America could Pierre Omidyar, whose parents are Iranian and who grew up in Paris, have started a company like eBay. Only in America could Vinod Khosla, the son of an Indian army officer, become a leading venture capitalist, the shaper of the technology industry, and a billionaire.

Very true.

 

[Katzndogz]

Copenhagen - best quality of life - YouTube

The best quality of life. The highest happiness rates. And, high suicide rates.

Worldwide surveys have consistently ranked the Scandinavian countries — with their generous family-leave policies, low crime, free health care, rich economies and, yes, high income taxes — as the happiest places on earth. But this happiness has always been accompanied by a paradox: the happiest countries also seem to have the highest suicide rates.

Is it the long, dark winters facing Finland and Denmark that cause the problem? Or some kind of Nordic depression gene? Or none of the above


Read more: Why the Happiest States Have the Highest Suicide Rates | Healthland | TIME.com

 

[High_Gravity]

Copenhagen - best quality of life - YouTube

The best quality of life. The highest happiness rates. And, high suicide rates.

Worldwide surveys have consistently ranked the Scandinavian countries — with their generous family-leave policies, low crime, free health care, rich economies and, yes, high income taxes — as the happiest places on earth. But this happiness has always been accompanied by a paradox: the happiest countries also seem to have the highest suicide rates.

Is it the long, dark winters facing Finland and Denmark that cause the problem? Or some kind of Nordic depression gene? Or none of the above


Read more: Why the Happiest States Have the Highest Suicide Rates | Healthland | TIME.com

Maybe their too happy?

 

[midcan5]

The reactions to this sort of study are fascinating, they range from 'it ain't true' to 'but there is a big pothole in SomePlaceElse.' No one asked why or how we got there considering we are presumably the richest nation on earth. Anyone know where the riches are going? Seems all this money could, or should, be doing something good, don't you think. What was it Freud called denial of reality.

 

[auditor0007]

The rankings are based on parental leave policies, preschool enrollment rates, breast feeding support, teen pregnancy rates, female education rates, maternal death rates, infant mortality rates, support systems for parents including safety nets like welfare and food subsidies

Yea, that's the problem. We just don't have enough entitlement programs.

I know, we should be more like Somalia.

 

[starcraftzzz]

Good thing America helps with the health and welfare of many other nations then huh?

Such as bombing iraq?

Iraq is capitalized, but then making intelligent statements is not your genre.

Who knew that spending around 1 trillion dollars to lower oil productionw as a good thing