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From here: Ranking shows rich nations not leading way to end poverty, inequality
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Of course, many on this forum are going to hang the blame on Obama. But the HofR Replicants are more guilty for their refusal to endorse Obama's request for more Stimulus Spending after ARRA-spending of around $800B in 2009/10 had stopped dead an exploding Unemployment Rate at 10%.
Without stimulus-spending, getting unemployment back down to 5% would take an excruciatingly (for American families) long five-and-a-half years more, as attested by the Bureau of Labor Statistics here:
And why? Who refused all further stimulus-spending whilst controlling the HofR, favoring the opposite inanity of Austerity Spending - see here from the NYT in 2013: Economists See Deficit Emphasis as Impeding Recovery
Some people just never learn ...
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Most of the world's richest countries failed to earn top marks on their progress toward reaching the United Nations' goals to end poverty and inequality, with only Germany and the United Kingdom in the top ten, according to a list published on Thursday.
The United States ranked 25th on the index of 149 countries, scoring poorly on promoting clean energy and fighting inequality and climate change, said the ranking by the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Bertelsmann Stiftung, a German social responsibility foundation.
U.N. member states agreed last September to 17 ambitious goals to tackle the world's most troubling problems such as inequality, poverty and climate change.
The agenda is to be implemented over the next 15 years, with a big push globally to win public support.
The index measuring nations' progress is meant to boost interest in the global goals, said Jeffrey Sachs, director of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
"We put this report out ... as a kind of spur," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "'Remember these goals? You signed up to them. Here's where you are.'"
Scoring at the bottom of the list were the Central African Republic and Liberia, while Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Switzerland topped the list. Germany ranked sixth, and the United Kingdom ranked tenth, it said.
The United States ranked 25th, below Hungary and above Slovak Republic, it said.
Of course, many on this forum are going to hang the blame on Obama. But the HofR Replicants are more guilty for their refusal to endorse Obama's request for more Stimulus Spending after ARRA-spending of around $800B in 2009/10 had stopped dead an exploding Unemployment Rate at 10%.
Without stimulus-spending, getting unemployment back down to 5% would take an excruciatingly (for American families) long five-and-a-half years more, as attested by the Bureau of Labor Statistics here:
And why? Who refused all further stimulus-spending whilst controlling the HofR, favoring the opposite inanity of Austerity Spending - see here from the NYT in 2013: Economists See Deficit Emphasis as Impeding Recovery
Some people just never learn ...
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