People queue at a free medical clinic in Wise, Virginia. Fourteen women died per 100,000 live births in the US in 2015 – a similar number to Uruguay and Lebanon.
Credit: Pete Marovich/Bloomberg
The US, the world’s biggest economy, ranks below Kazakhstan and Algeria for gender equality, according to a report showing the countries that offer the most opportunities for girls. (emphasis added)
Niger was named the worst country in the Girls’ Opportunity Index, compiled by Save the Children to mark International Day of the Girl.
The US came 32nd in the index due to its low representation of women in parliament, high teenage pregnancy rates and and its record on maternal deaths. Fourteen women died per 100,000 live births in the US in 2015, a similar […]
The US, world’s biggest economy doing what? To add to the F-35 and Zumwalt, goes the Ford class aircraft carrier, launced in 2013 and still not able to land a plane. $600 million cost over run on the flight arresting mechanism that has yet to work. Not to mention the trillion dollar ‘nuclear modernization’ reversal of the Gorbachav nuclear agreements, and B-21 a stealth nuclear bomber. Anti-security tools for big stick neo cons that have no clue about economics.
Meanwhile we fight the GMO, sugar, diabetes, manufactured food loop which makes a lot of money in backward progress. Impoverishing us. Just like all the helicopter money given to developers to build towers in cities to invalidate rooftop solar power. No wages to support these atronomical rents… with many vacancies all around.
When will we comprehend that the reason we work is so we can share among us that we need: food, shelter and clothing. Gadgets, We don’t need no stinking gadgets… to quote an old western. We are building towers to the sky like Babylon. We are puting cement foundations in the best agricultural land thinking how much we can make in the next 5 years. Like turtles gambling on our shells, we pride ourselves on how much they are worth, forgetting each of us needs one.
The US, 4% of the world’s population doesn’t need the biggest economy. It needs a sane one. An economy that does not, regularly, drive people crazy. More money will not get us there, only more equally distributed money.
That is what Johnny Too Many says.