{"id":148,"date":"2011-10-29T17:31:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T22:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/?p=148"},"modified":"2011-10-29T17:37:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T22:37:16","slug":"some-sobering-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/2011\/10\/29\/some-sobering-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Some sobering statistics&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Blow&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/29\/opinion\/blow-americas-exploding-pipe-dream.html\">recent NYT op-ed<\/a> covers the sad realities concerning how the US stacks up to the rest of the industrialized world among OECD member nations when it comes to social justice. He taps into a recent study by the Bertelsmann Stiftung Foundation in Germany.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Their findings are of course, not pretty. As can clearly be seen in the chart below that NYT published along with his piece. But hey, there is a bright side. At least we can take comfort in knowing that we&#8217;re at least more socially just than Mexico, Chile, Turkey and Greece.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But give us time. Surely with some faith and perseverance, we&#8217;ll top those guys too.&#160;<\/p>\n<h5><a title=\"oecd stats\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\" href=\"\/images\/2011\/10\/oecd-stats.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"567\" alt=\"oecd stats\" src=\"\/images\/2011\/10\/400\/oecd-stats.gif\" \/><\/a><br \/>\noecd stats<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Blow&#8217;s recent NYT op-ed covers the sad realities concerning how the US stacks up to the rest of the industrialized world among OECD member nations when it comes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[57,59,56,58,60],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-economics","category-opnion-commentary","tag-charles-blow","tag-economics","tag-oecd-report","tag-social-justice","tag-us-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}