[lbo-talk] US immiseration

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Mar 7 01:34:32 PST 2007


How much worse off you are in the US:

1975

life expectancy 71.4 (65 if you are black)

Unemployment rate 9 per cent

Youth literacy 80 % (1980)

Human Development Index 0.875

2007

life expectancy 77.9 (72.7 if you are black)

infant mortality 'has been declining steadily for more than four decades' Joyce Martin CDC

Unemployment rate 4.6 per cent

Youth (18-24) literacy 87 %

Human development index 0.948



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