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What do the indexes say about America’s claim to be the greatest country in the world?
Unfortunately on many social justice and standard of living scales the United States not fare that well. America’s middle class may be superior to many in Europe, but the nation’s aggregate often declines due to abiding poverty in many inner-cities.
This leads to a caveat having to be inserted whenever you read such a study. For instance, America’s schools are often ranked lower than, say, European ones. But America’s suburban schools are equal to Europe’s but what drops the score is abysmal record in the inner-city.
A second caveat: studies done by Euro or UN bureaucrats often arbitrarily disfavor the United States due to their biases. The UN’s study on health care, for example, ranked the United States very well but many of the criterion were irrelevant to American health care but solely reflected the leftist prejudices of the study. America lost points because it does not have a “progressive” enough income tax.
But, caveats aside, a new study should be taken into consideration concerning social justice, meaning economic opportunity and ability for the poor to climb into the middle class, ranks the United States only above Turkey. In the specific question of “access to education” the same result is present:
Even if the United States is actually higher, and certainly the middle class average is weighted down, it is unlikely that with the best of reading the U.S. would surpass the Scandinavian countries.
The land of opportunity?
