We're Number.......... 16!

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by modge

Exactly. But that is the same the whole world over.

Norway has a different perspective. It was not surprising that it was at the top of OP's table.

Norway has the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by modge

Exactly. But that is the same the whole world over.

It isn't the same all over the world. The graph clearly shows that some countries do a lot better than others. For instance, the Czech Republic, a former USSR satellite country, has a childhood poverty rate exactly half that of the UK.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I just got back from Canada and it did not appear to me that there was anywhere near the economic disparity there that we have in the U.S. Yet I was surprised to see that they did not appear as one of the 15 countries above us in the chart. So I check inside the report and found that their child poverty rate is in the low 20's while ours was in the low 30's. So obviously they belong ahead of us. I wonder how many more there are?

That is not wht I saw on the first chart, were there more? What interested me was the direction that was being taken and I was happy to see that many countries were reducing the rate. The poor Greeks, guess they can thank Angela for that.