Enjoying the Low Life? Nicholas Kristof - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/opinion/nicholas-kristof-enjoying-the-low-life.html <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001LrmQuthTe7MlaXopGgSKjz9u_6IRn2gWjZUxKqw-r3EH5Umia4e2NNn_oxMpZ1rgDgx3k_9NVNHKjq39K3Cz12HNforj5QJFygalG68Wymt_4iyv1DjCwLpxxXYOs9gNL6n0T0Lulvv-uvj-Mq9txFiKBdGylSrtNgBs1roCrAIgQbedqkQjdKWYfv1Sn_veRm2is2jEeKpeGN6TNOpf1-Afe6WD6QYjmLJIPwK_0Us_2Dy5RpoUUiW0NSZMHGHMcEa3rzUYlDE=&c=rohCpG6fLSEqItcPHlr-tKWIZq5Mlg3UmJgPFl9IsBU6LlVOkdnw6g==&ch=hx3SAnYYYAorojHml0OASE9YBgFXFazWTKmGTGza1hJQH-g6B-Yx_A==> ... The Social Progress Index for 2015 ranks the United States 16th in the world. We may thump our chests and boast that we're No. 1, and in some ways we are. But, in important ways, we lag. The index ranks the United States 30th in life expectancy, 38th in saving children's lives, and a humiliating 55th in women surviving childbirth ... We have higher traffic fatality rates than 37 other countries, and higher suicide rates than 80 ... The top countries in the 2015 Social Progress Index are Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Iceland, New Zealand and Canada. Of the 133 countries rated, Central African Republic is last, just after Chad and Afghanistan ... As an American, what saddens me is also that our political system seems unable to rise to the challenges.
