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What can the U.S. learn from Latin America’s declining inequality?
By Heraldo Muñoz (*) - President Obama recently declared that inequality is “the defining challenge of our age.” When inequality is becoming a growing debate in the United States, what lessons can be drawn from Latin America, which — although still highly unequal — is the only region that managed to reduce income inequality in the last decade? Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe Americans can learn: don't let your government distract you with false and invented claims to other peoples' territory and focus our attention on the genuine issues facing your country.
Jan 28th, 2014 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Everyone in the world calls the United States now 'The Brazil of the North”. Widely acknowledged things:
Jan 29th, 2014 - 03:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0- The middle class has collapsed in the USA in all statistics.
-Poverty rate itself was 11% in 2007, now is closing in on 16%.
- Social mobility is non-existent in the USA, the worst in the developed world.
- Income inequality way up since 1980.
- College and healthcare increasingly unaffordable.
All those are acknowledged facts. As well as the non-existence of the American Dream.
Must be interesting to espouse about the world and have never been out of that shithole in Mendoza.
Jan 29th, 2014 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“As well as the non-existence of the American Dream”
Jan 29th, 2014 - 03:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So called “American dream ” (US style) is completely different compare to the so called “American dream” for example in Brazil which is more based on having a good simple life and time on the beach with friends, family or both and not worry about tomorrow (Living the luxery is fun, but not the most important. God, jezus christ, friends and family are top priority and tomorrow is a new day). In the United States living the luxery life is top prorioty because that's the american dream according to Corporate 24 hour news (ABC, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, Bloomberg etc) cars, not one but two or three, a big house with a big garden and a big mortgage they will never be able to pay off. In otherwords become a slave for the rest of your life. Corporate USA has succesfully brainwashed the people for years. The good news is, today there are many people in the US realizing that the “American Dream” is nothing more than an illusion, a big corporate scam. Bad news is, that groups is still to small, it's only the older generation (their pension is becoming smaller, that's why), the generation of the 80's to begin 2000 are divided between awake or I don't care mentality but hollywood is important, (the ones of after 2001 are to young and to busy with their cellphone), the Media on tv is still to powerfull to keep the brainwashed on their spot and make them arguing about the fake left vs right, because they are to busy, don't have to time to check out the facts how the nation is in decline, or just do not want to and can't face reality.
”Everyone in the world calls the United States now 'The Brazil of the North”.
Yes, the Brazil of the 70's -80's, though it looks more like Mexico, while today, Brazil experience the booming period as the US went through between the begin 50's - 60's. Differences are: different technolgy being used, different mindset, Brazil has a long way to go and has far more natural recources compare to the US.
Passing the torch. You wannabe's can have this article.
Jan 29th, 2014 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This one is too easy.
Jan 30th, 2014 - 04:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0America can learn how to CRUMBLE and collapse, like Argentina or Brazil. The only country in LatAm that has done well, has been Chile, and their inequality has remained high. Europe isn't doing so hot, and even Canada's growth has slowed tremendously. It doesn't look like equality is the pathway to competitiveness anymore.
So what could America learn? How to become not competitive. No thanks. Anyway, our “poor” already get free housing, free food, and free money. Enough to buy big flat screen TV's and all the goodies.
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