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5. wealth inequality (so high in the US, and very low in a lot of Europe, especially Northern Europe)
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 06:36 AM
Oct 2019

is a massive driver, as is zero stress from healthcare bill worries for most places, and again, in many nations here, almost free or very lost cost tertiary education costs (tuition wise), and also Europeans get far, far more paid vacation days than the US, which has the least in the entire OECD. Also the US is the only OECD nation with zero guaranteed maternity leave, and when you do a productivity PER HOUR WORKED, the US (which is told that the American worker is the most productive in the world) drops like a rock.

The world’s richest countries guarantee mothers more than a year of paid maternity leave. The U.S. guarantees them nothing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/02/05/the-worlds-richest-countries-guarantee-mothers-more-than-a-year-of-paid-maternity-leave-the-u-s-guarantees-them-nothing/





more ( a tweet from the article and 2 videos on wealth inequality)










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