Looking across countries, high levels of inequality tend to be associated with lower life expectancy
Looking across countries, high levels of inequality tend to be associated with lower life expectancy, higher crime rates, and less social mobility, which for these purposes can be defined as the ability to move between income groups. For a nation that still takes the worldview of Horatio Alger seriously, the idea that America may actually be a highly stratified place in which all too many people get stuck at the bottom is hard to accept. But it is a fact—and not really a surprising one. — "Inequality 101: The Picket Fence and the Staircase,“ The New Yorker (April 12, 2012) John Cassidy -- source link
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