Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy by Bill Clinton

Author:Bill Clinton [Clinton, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-95976-8
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2011-11-07T16:00:00+00:00

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On food insecurity, measuring the percentage of people who didn’t have enough money at some time in the last year to buy food, only twenty countries reported. The United States tied with South Korea for the highest percentage in need at 16 percent.

Our highest positive ranking on this list is eleventh, on Gallup’s Global Wellbeing Index, which measures the percentage of people thriving in the United States at 57 percent, well below Denmark’s top ranking at 82 percent.

On comparative tests, U.S. students ranked sixteenth in science, twenty-second in math. Our high school graduation rate is eighteenth, as the next chart shows. Our problems in kindergarten through twelfth-grade education are well known. In elementary school, our kids match up well with others. By the eighth grade, there’s a pretty wide gap between our students and those in the highest-scoring countries. By the eleventh grade, the gap has grown into a chasm. Though our best students continue to do reasonably well compared with other nations’ best students, we also have a higher percentage of low-performing students than they do.4,5

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