{"id":41942,"date":"2012-01-06T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=41942"},"modified":"2013-11-08T05:11:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T10:11:36","slug":"international-comparisons-on-social-justice-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/01\/06\/international-comparisons-on-social-justice-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"International Comparisons on Social Justice Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does the U.S. compare to other developed countries on measures of social justice? According to the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2011\/10\/29\/opinion\/29blow-ch.html?ref=opinion\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>, not very well. \u00a0The visual below compares countries&#8217; poverty rates, poverty prevention measures, income inequality, spending on pre-primary education, and citizen health. \u00a0The &#8220;overall&#8221; rating is on the far left and the U.S. ranks 27th out of 31.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/1.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41943\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/1.gif\" width=\"585\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/1.gif 650w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/1-500x708.gif 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/2011\/11\/03\/news-flash-us-is-not-at-the-top-of-the-social-justice-heap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feministing<\/a>. \u00a0See also how the U.S. ranks on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/05\/international-comparisons-of-equality-and-prosperity-2\/\">measures of equality and prosperity<\/a>(33 out of 33, for what it&#8217;s worth). Thanks to Dolores R. for the link!<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does the U.S. compare to other developed countries on measures of social justice? According to the New York Times, not very well. \u00a0The visual below compares countries&#8217; poverty rates, poverty prevention measures, income inequality, spending on pre-primary education, and citizen health. \u00a0The &#8220;overall&#8221; rating is on the far left and the U.S. ranks 27th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,29,34,252,260,1765,1766,1767,1811,1770,1771,1815,2055,2026,1776,1777,4128,4127,1783,1817,1819,1821,2129,1824,1790,1791,1794,1795,8087,1788,1802,1804,1805,1789,1807,3920,304],"class_list":["post-41942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-class","tag-education","tag-healthmedicine","tag-international-comparisons","tag-nation-australia","tag-nation-austria","tag-nation-belgium","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-nation-canada","tag-nation-chile","tag-nation-czech-republic","tag-nation-denmark","tag-nation-finland","tag-nation-france","tag-nation-germany","tag-nation-greece","tag-nation-hungary","tag-nation-iceland","tag-nation-ireland","tag-nation-italy","tag-nation-japan","tag-nation-luxembourg","tag-nation-mexico","tag-nation-new-zealand","tag-nation-norway","tag-nation-poland","tag-nation-portugal","tag-nation-slovakia","tag-nation-south-korea","tag-nation-spain","tag-nation-sweden","tag-nation-switzerland","tag-nation-the-netherlands","tag-nation-turkey","tag-nation-united-states","tag-the-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41942"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58530,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41942\/revisions\/58530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}