Reply #30: UPENN Study ranks US 27th in social progress due to mass poverty.

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The study says that US progress in meeting people's needs stopped in 1980 under Ray Gun.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-07/uop-ur2071703.php

"Using data provided primarily by national governments to the United Nations and the World Bank, Estes's study measures the ability of nations to meet the needs of their residents for health, education, human rights, political participation, population growth, improved women's status, cultural diversity and freedom from "social chaos." Military spending and environmental protection are also among the 40 factors used to tabulate his Weighted Index of Social Progress."