As a result, slums are popping up. The middle-class is shrinking. The poor are growing poorer and the rich are growing richer. The murder rate for young men in US cities is from 4 to 70 times greater than it is in Bangladesh. Voter turnout in elections in the United States is the lowest of all Western democracies.
Non voters outnumber voters by two to one.
The education system is a disaster. Recent studies have shown that scientific knowledge of high school students is the lowest of all the industrialized countries. Americans are actually more likely to be illiterate than Eastern Europeans. The rate of teenage pregnancies is 10 times higher that in Japan. We have increasingly fragmented and dysfunctional families.