Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
Dan Witters, - The Gallup Organization
Stephan: Here is yet further evidence in support of my Social Values, Social Wellness trend assessment. Living in states controlled by the Theocratic Right is, as this story shows, dangerous to a person's health.
View and export complete wellbeing data by metro area using Gallup's U.S. City Wellbeing Tracking interactive.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans living in the nation’s metropolitan areas with the lowest wellbeing are about twice as likely to report having a heart attack than are residents living in the metros with the highest wellbeing. An average of 5.5% of Americans living in the 10 metro areas with the lowest wellbeing in the U.S. report having had a heart attack, compared with 2.8% of residents in the 10 metro areas with the highest levels of wellbeing.
Heart Attack Rates in 10 MSAs with Highest and Lowest Wellbeing
These findings are based on an analysis of more than 230,000 interviews across 190 metropolitan areas conducted throughout 2012 with adults aged 18 and older, collected as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.
The metros with the highest Well-Being Index scores in 2012 include Lincoln, Neb.; Boulder, Colo.; and Provo-Orem, Utah. Those with the lowest Well-Being Index scores in 2012 include Charleston, W.Va.; Huntington-Ashland, W.Va.-Ky.-Ohio; and Mobile, Ala. Out of the approximately 3 million adult residents living in the 10 metro areas with the lowest wellbeing, about 161,000 have experienced a heart attack. If these cities experienced the same rate of heart attacks as what is found in the 10 metro areas with the highest […]
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Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
ALEX KANE, Staff Reporter - Salon
Stephan: In states controlled by the Theocratic Right upward mobility is stifled, trapping the poor in their poverty. Note the overlap with the previously health story.
Where Americans live plays a major role in whether they can move up the economic ladder, a new study profiled by the New York Times reveals. The study by economists compares upward mobility across different metropolitan areas.
The data reveals that cities in the Southeast lag far behind those in the Northeast when it comes to giving residents a chance to improve their economic standing. The chances of moving up the money ladder are low in places like Atlanta and Charlotte, and are higher in places like New York and Pittsburgh.
‘Where you grow up matters,
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Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
MIKE STOBBE, - The Huffington Post
Stephan: Here you can see the data showing the Theocratic Right's social policies literally take years from the lives of people who live in those societies.
ATLANTA — If you’re 65 and living in Hawaii, here’s some good news: Odds are you’ll live another 21 years. And for all but five of those years, you’ll likely be in pretty good health.
Hawaii tops the charts in the government’s first state-by-state look at how long Americans age 65 can expect to live, on average, and how many of those remaining years will be healthy ones.
Retirement-age Mississippians fared worst, with only about 17 1/2 more years remaining and nearly seven of them in poorer health.
U.S. life expectancy has been growing steadily for decades, and is now nearly 79 for newborns. The figures released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate life expectancy for people 65 years old, and what portion will be free of the illnesses and disabilities suffered late in life.
‘What ultimately matters is not just the length of life but the quality of life,’ said Matt Stiefel, who oversees population health research for Kaiser Permanente.
The World Health Organization keeps ‘healthy life expectancy’ statistics on nearly 200 countries, and the numbers are used to determine the most sensible ages to set retirement and retirement benefits. But the measure is still catching on in the United […]
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FRANK NEWPORT, - The Gallup Organization
Stephan: This is the result of the creation of the American Gulag, the privatization of prisons and schools, and the war on drugs. All of the companies, and agencies involved in these depraved activities make their ricebowl through a deliberate institutionalized social policy of using the poor first, and Black young men by preference, as valves to tap into the public money trough. This whole structure is based on racist principles, as the fully documented social outcomes make irrefutably clear.
PRINCETON, NJ — While 68% of blacks say the American justice system is biased against blacks, 25% of whites agree. Blacks’ attitudes about the justice system have remained virtually constant over the past 20 years, but whites have become less likely to perceive bias.
Trend: Do you think the American justice system is biased against black people?
The new results are based on interviews with 2,541 Americans, including 1,841 non-Hispanic whites and 230 non-Hispanic blacks, conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking July 16-21, after the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial was handed down. Zimmerman was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the shooting death of a young black man, Trayvon Martin.
The Gallup data reveal a continuing divide by race in views of the fairness of the American justice system. This current divergence by race in views of bias in the justice system is broadly similar to attitudes measured in Gallup surveys conducted in 1993 and in 2008, although the percentage of white Americans who say the justice system is biased has dropped by eight percentage points over that time, while the percentage of blacks has stayed constant.
Blacks Say Zimmerman Verdict Was Wrong
These black-white differences regarding the […]
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Stephan: In the nation's history this is one of the most extraordinary statements ever made by a former President. The fact that it has gone mostly unremarked by corporate media is, itself, a commentary on the country we have become.
At an Atlantic Bridge meeting on July 16th, a former US President called out one of the dominating, global elephants-in-the-room, saying ‘America has no functioning democracy. ‘
These words came from President Jimmy Carter, and continue the trend of Carter’s clarion-call lucidity on world affairs, especially when it comes to truth telling in and on America.
Although Carter’s quote has been tweeted by Glenn Greenwald, and by Wikileaks and others, as of July 18th, in doing a Google News search, it appears Carter’s statement about America’s non-functioning democracy has not been a headline for major news outlets in the US, including broadcast journalism, which I find quite telling and revealing-further proof of the denial surrounding this very obvious fact that Carter is so bold to point out, unflinchingly and unambiguously.
In recent days, President Carter is also on the record speaking in defense of NSA whistle blower, Edward Snowden, saying to CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux that ‘Snowden’s acts may have some positive impact.
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