Better than Bulgaria but not as nice as Cuba

[Stalin]

What do you call a country where nearly one in 10 adults have medical debts and a broken bone can boot you into bankruptcy? A country where a city of more than 160,000 residents recently had no safe drinking water for weeks? A country where life expectancy has dropped for the second year in a row and poor people sell their blood plasma in order to make ends meet? A country where the maternal mortality rate of black women in the capital is nearly twice as high as for women in Syria?

step forward the good ole USA

Better than Bulgaria but not as nice as Cuba: how did the US become such an awful place to live? | Arwa Mahdawi

The land of the free is heading for ‘developing country’ status, based on a UN index that ranks quality of life. The UK’s not doing much better, writes Arwa Mahdawi

www.theguardian.com

written by

Peter Temin

Peter Temin is Professor of Economics Emeritus at MIT. He is the coauthor of Keynes: Useful Economics for the World Economy (MIT Press) and of The Leaderless...

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Comrade Stalin

 

[Boris Norris]

What do you call a country where nearly one in 10 adults have medical debts and a broken bone can boot you into bankruptcy? A country where a city of more than 160,000 residents recently had no safe drinking water for weeks? A country where life expectancy has dropped for the second year in a row and poor people sell their blood plasma in order to make ends meet? A country where the maternal mortality rate of black women in the capital is nearly twice as high as for women in Syria?

step forward the good ole USA

Better than Bulgaria but not as nice as Cuba: how did the US become such an awful place to live? | Arwa Mahdawi

The land of the free is heading for ‘developing country’ status, based on a UN index that ranks quality of life. The UK’s not doing much better, writes Arwa Mahdawi

www.theguardian.com

written by

Peter Temin

Peter Temin is Professor of Economics Emeritus at MIT. He is the coauthor of Keynes: Useful Economics for the World Economy (MIT Press) and of The Leaderless...

mitpress.mit.edu

Comrade Stalin

Where you now thingo?
Not belching patriotic lava like before.