I
"WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT 2017", görs en speciell analys av USA under rubriken "Restoring American Happiness" av
Jeffrey D. Sachs.
I rapporten kom f.ö. Sverige på tionde plats, en bra bit efter de övriga skandinaviska länderna. USA kom på 14e plats.
Sachs sammanfattar i sin analys vilka åtgärder han anser att USA bör vidta:
"This will require a keen focus on the ve main factors that have contributed to falling social trust and con dence in government. The first priority should be campaign finance reform, especially to undo the terrible damage caused by the Citizens United decision. The second should be a set of policies aiming at reducing income and wealth inequality. This would include an expanded social safety net, wealth taxes, and greater public financing of health and education. The third should be to improve the social relations between the native-born and immigrant populations. Canada has demonstrated a considerable success with multiculturalism; the United States has not tried very hard. The fourth is to acknowledge and move past the fear created by 9/11 and its memory. The US remains traumatized to this day; Trump’s ban on travel to the United States from certain Muslim-majority countries is a continuing manifestation of the exaggerated and irrational fears that grip the nation. The fifth priority, I believe, should be on improved educational quality, access, and attainment. America has lost the edge in educating its citizens for the 21st century; that fact alone ensures a social crisis that will continue to threaten well-being until the commitment to quality education for all is once again a central tenet of American society."
Jag tycker att
Sachs pekar på viktiga faktorer, men är det politiskt realistiskt att ens försöka att genomföra hans förslag?
Här är rapporten i sin helhet:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/sdsn-whr2017/HR17_3-20-17.pdf
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