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The spirit level : why greater equality makes societies stronger
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The strong version of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's argument in The Spirit Level implies that President Obama's fight to reform health care was pointless as discussed by the authors, and that extending the availability of health insurance cannot substantially improve Americans’ health.Abstract:
The strong version of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s argument in The Spirit Level implies that President Obama’s fight to reform health care was pointless. Extending the availability of health insurance cannot substantially improve Americans’ health. Instead, the president would make us all happier, healthier, and longer-lived, their logic suggests, if he could get the richest, say, 5 percent of Americans to leave the country.read more
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Class Isolation and Affluent Americans’ Perception of Social Conditions
TL;DR: The authors found that the affluent form perceptions of such social conditions by extrapolating from the conditions that exist in their own neighborhoods, and the affluent take on perceptions of social conditions that are significantly more positive than the perceptions of everyone else in society.
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Where Poverty Matters: Examining the Cross-national Relationship Between Economic Deprivation and Homicide
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Lifelong learning, income inequality and social mobility in Singapore
Millie Lee,Paul Morris +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the impact of the system of lifelong learning on income inequality and the quality of citizens' life in Singapore, and demonstrate that despite the remarkable economic growth at a national level and the signi...
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The Uneven Distribution of Social Suffering: Documenting the Social Health Consequences of Neo-liberal Social Policy on Marginalized Youth
TL;DR: The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Strong as mentioned in this paper argues that severely unequal societies produce high rates of social pain: adverse outcomes including school drop out, teen pregnancy, mental health problems, lack of social trust, high mortality rates, violence and crime, low social participation.
Effects of stress on the developing brain.
TL;DR: How early-life stress can lead to long-lasting behavioral, mental, and physical consequences is discussed, and preventive measures can improve health outcomes, and interventions for those who have already experienced debilitating early- life stress require considerable effort.
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Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
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Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England
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Social Trust and Fractionalization: A Possible Reinterpretation
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Do Neoliberal Economic Policies Kill or Save Lives
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TL;DR: The authors found that open international trade policies, low-inflation macroeconomic environments, and market-oriented property rights regimes promote human development across the world, even when controlling for countries' economic performance.