America now has the highest poverty rate, both generally and for children; the greatest inequality of incomes; the lowest social mobility; the lowest score on the UN’s index of “material well-being of children”; the worst score on the UN’s Gender Inequality Index; the highest expenditure on health care as a percentage of GDP; the next-to-lowest score for student performance in math and reading; the highest homicide rate; the largest prison population in absolute terms and per capita; the highest carbon dioxide emissions and the highest water consumption per capita; the lowest score on Yale’s Environmental Performance Index (except for Belgium); the largest ecological footprint per capita (except for Denmark); the … Continue reading James Gustave Speth