Unsustainable appears to be Mr GrAbbitt’s favourite word, along with growth but…”America ranks fifth according to HDI, below Norway, Australia, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. But when its score is adjusted for inequality, it drops 23 spots – among the largest such declines for any highly developed country…US falls below Greece and Slovakia…US, even after stock market recovery, median wealth fell more than 40% from 2007 to 2013.” For such big shift in median, imagine how many more are in poverty and how few are even wealthy.

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