It’s one of just three countries, according to an excoriating New York Times op-ed, along with Brazil and Hungary, to score worse than when the Social Progress Index began back in 2011.
And even among those three, the U.S. experienced the largest decline in quality of life over the last decade.
“The data paint an alarming picture of the state of our nation, and we hope it will be a call to action,” Michael Porter, a Harvard Business School professor and advisory panel chair of the Social Progress Index, told the NYT. “It’s like we’re a developing country.”
