Income inequality is substantially correlated to most of society's problems. Two studies -- one by Harvard, the other by Berkeley -- those are schools...LMAO sorry ...measured income inequality in all 50 states. They found that states with greater income inequality suffered from all of the following problems:
Higher death rates for all age groups.
Higher rates of homicide.
Higher rates of violent crime.
Higher costs per person for police protection.
Higher rates of incarceration.
Higher rates of unemployment.
A higher percentage of people receiving income assistance and food stamps.
More high-school dropouts.
Less state funds spent per person on education.
Fewer books per person in the schools.
Poorer educational performance, including worse reading skills, worse math skills. Unless the Gov/Bush flubs the test records like he did in Texas..google it
Higher infant mortality rates.

In every year since 1958, America's infant mortality rate improved, or at least held steady. But in 2002, hmmmm wonder why? it got worse: 7 babies died for each thousand live births, while that rate was 6.8 deaths the year before.
Those numbers, buried in a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, didn't get much attention. But they are part of a pattern of recent statistics dribbling out of the federal government suggesting that for those on the bottom in America, life in our new Gilded Age is getting crueler.


Higher heart disease.
Higher cancer rates. Less environmental laws...
A greater percentage of people without medical insurance.
A greater proportion of babies born with low birth weight.

A higher proportion of the population using tobacco. A higher proportion of the population being sedentary (inactive).

Higher costs per-person for medical care.

Percent of population covered by public health care:lets look....

France, Austria 99%
Switzerland, Spain, Belgium 98%
Germany 92%
Netherlands 77%
United States 40%

Children under the poverty level: this is disgusting...

United States 22.4%
Canada 15.5
United Kingdom 9.3
Switzerland 7.8
Sweden 5.0
Germany 4.9
Norway 4.8

Deaths from malnutrition (per million):

Men Women
United States 7 13
France 4 9
Canada 5 7
Japan 2 1
United Kingdom 1 2
Norway 0 1

Liberals have voted to increase the minimum wage...BTW the judge Bush just pushed through opposes the minimum wage all together...
Liberals are pro-union, and did you not hear them screaming when Bush was cutting medical care to the poor or cutting funds to head start?
Liberals are pro education...Bush has made the largest education cuts in history...
remember the tax cuts for the rich by the GOP and welfare cuts but hey Paris Hilton won't have to pay any tax when she gets her inheritance...now theres something good conservatives did!
Liberals have fought the tobacco lobby...Conservatives love phillip morris and their party donations


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