The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976. As Timothy Noah of Slate noted in an excellent series on inequality, the United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/opinion/07kristof.html?_r=1 U.S. has slipped in rank to 49th in life expectancy, slightly ahead of Slovenia. The findings present a stark contrast to the claim – today an article of faith in the American conservative movement – that the United States has the best health care system in the world. The United States, as is widely known, remains the only advanced democracy without a universal health care program .http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/slips-49th-life-expectancy-study/ _____
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