Environment & Equity Sinking U.S. in Global Ratings

What is happening? U.S. is #41 in global rankings that measure democracy and inequality, moving the U.S. to developing country standards, and placing the U.S. between Cuba and Bulgaria.

Why is this important? The U.S. landed at #41 because of a lack of equity, treatment of the environment, and a “flawed democracy” according to United Nations Office of Sustainable Development and the Economist’s democracy index.

How will this be important? Historians say structural inequalities in the U.S. were first noted in 1899 by Scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, and brought into the political conversation by Martin Luther King Jr.

Route Fifty | US is Becoming a ‘Developing Country’ on Global Rankings that Measure Democracy, Inequality