5 Maps to Make You Think About the USA.

There is an interesting set of 40 maps on a Washington Post webpage. Here are a few that should help you to worry more about what is happening in the United States.

The Best and Worst Places to be Born

Economic Inequality Around the World

How the United States Compares to the World on Economic Inequality

Child Poverty in the Developed World

Check the supporting data from the source article, but basically we allow too many children to live in poverty, and we tolerate a lot of income inequality (only Latin America and southern Africa appear more unequal). This is no longer the best place to be born in the world, at least for too many of our babies.

From another source:

The dark areas on the map are those where children tend to remain in the same income level as their parent, that is where poor kids have little statistical probability of improving their economic status over that of their parents. The southern states of the old Confederacy stand out as denying that mobility.