Zbigniew Brzezinski said on Morning Joe this morning that the U.S. is the most socially unjust country in the world because our GINI coefficient is the highest in the world. He's close: We are 40th.
I love American elites. They import tens of millions of poor immigrants over the years and then point and say, "The U.S. is evil because it's so unequal!"
One reason why sociology is evil
Following Jeffrey Epstein's death, we have learned where he found his justification for raping teenage girls. He explained to an...
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Which factor reduces family size the most? Below are the standardized OLS regression coefficients for a sample of whites ages 40-59: Stand...
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Via a reader at iSteve, it looks like this might be the vocabulary test used by the General Social Survey. (Someone please tell me if I'...
Heard Z' comments on the radio this morning (Limbaugh played part of them.)
ReplyDeleteHow the heck can anyone think the guy who screwed up under the screw-up Jimma Carter has anything worthwhile to say?
His daughter is even more vacuous than he. Actually, that whole MSNBC group is a mess, Joe S. along with the rest.
[Among] the highest in the world [for wealthy countries]. Only a few missing words.
ReplyDeleteNever mind. It is good to use evidence to point out what the inaccuracies in what people say, like Guhname has done in this post. Also, the immigration point is important (although you could still say that you think income equality is important but not more important than the ability of people to immigrate).
ReplyDeleteMost-Unequal Income Distributions
ReplyDelete1 Namibia [Most unequal]
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36 Philippines
37 Mozambique
38 Jamaica
39 Bulgaria
40 USA
41 Cameroon
42 Iran
43 Cambodia
44 Uganda
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140 Sweden [Most Equal]
USA is not in good company.