UNICEF ranks the USA 26th out of 29 industrialised countries for child well-being

[muriel_volestrangler]

Do a news search for this - https://www.google.com/news?ncl=dXPpADbRUWNLw8MzjW5z1ns2J_2CM&q=unicef+children&lr=English&hl=en - and you'll find British media discussing the poor showing of the UK at 16th, and Canadian media deploring their 17th position. You'll find some Irish (10th) results too, and some Australian and New Zealand ones, although they didn't have enough figures for those latter 2 to give them an overall ranking. Reaction, or just coverage, from the US media? Zilch.

Report Card 11 released by UNICEF charts the well-being of children in 29 rich countries

The report finds that the Netherlands and three Nordic countries – Finland, Iceland and Norway – again sit at the top of a child well-being table, while four southern European countries – Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain – are placed in the bottom half.
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Report Card 11: measures development according to five dimensions of children’s lives – material well-being, health and safety, education, behaviour and risks, and housing and environment.

The study does not find a strong relationship between per capita GDP and overall child well-being. For instance, Slovenia ranks higher than Canada, the Czech Republic higher than Austria, and Portugal higher than the United States of America.

http://www.unicef.org/policyanalysis/index_68637.html

Full report: http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/rc11_eng.pdf

Don't worry, the USA beat Lithuania, Latvia and Romania. There is still further to fall.

Oh, I can find one American organisation reporting on it - UPI. But though the article starts with "the United States, one of the world's richest countries, ranks near the bottom among affluent societies in children's well-being", the editors decided the appropriate title, despite this appearing in the 'U.S. News' section, is "UNICEF: Netherlands leads in child welfare". Talk about apathy.

[indepat]

1. Just one of the infinite joys of right-wing governance since the early days of the gipper's

reign. The good ole USofA has fallen to the bottom/near the bottom of all meaningful quality-of-life measures and the chained CPI will push the nation even further down the list as the government of, by, and for the people blatantly promotes the welfare of the uber-wealthy, large corporation, and oligarchs at the expense of everyone else, to wit: absolute right-wing power corrupts absolutely.

edited to change at to as