America is the greatest country in the world - part III

If America now ranks as the 5th best country in which to run a business, 23rd in infrastructure, 49th in life expectancy and so on, can we still call it #1?  (Restoring the American Dream: Getting Back to #1)

Links to: part I, part II
More ways to measure, 'America is the greatest country in the world': Labor

- steady around 9% unemployment

- minimum wage is below a "living wage"  (Poverty in America Living Wage Calculator)

Transparency

- or lack thereof.  16 million documents each year are classified top secret each year.  (Digging Deeper: Jesse Ventura's Alternative Take on American History).  77 million documents each year are classified. (Why Is That a Secret?).

Infrastructure

- 23rd.  Quality of overall infrastructure ranking.  Down from 6th 10 years ago by the World Economic Forum.  (Investment in U.S. infrastructure would spur economy, boost safety)

- 15th. Global competitive Index  (Report: Get Out of the Highway-Obsessed Eisenhower Era)

Economic Mobility (or achieving the American Dream)

- 10th of 12 countries.  (A Family Affair: Intergenerational Social Mobility across OECD Countries)
- hint:  education is key

• International Comparisons of Economic Mobility
• Social Immobility: Climbing The Economic Ladder Is Harder In The U.S. Than In Most European Countries
• The American Dream Is Alive and Well ... in Finland!
• End of the American Dream

Standard of Living

- 4th by the HDI (Human Development Index)  (Human Development Index, from Wikipedia)

- 12th by the Income-adjusted HDI (taking into account income disparity where the US has the highest income disparity of developed nations).

Human Poverty Index

- 17th.  (Macro national income living standards, from Tudor2U)

See also:

We're #1 -- Ten Depressing Ways America Is Exceptional

We’re #1: Charting American Exceptionalism

to be concluded...