{"id":2661,"date":"2011-10-27T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/new-social-justice-index-places-u-s-near-bottom.html"},"modified":"2011-10-27T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T14:19:00","slug":"new-social-justice-index-places-u-s-near-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/new-social-justice-index-places-u-s-near-bottom.html","title":{"rendered":"New Social Justice Index Places U.S. Near Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><h1 class=\"title-news\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none;border-color: initial;border-left-style: none;border-right-style: none;border-top-style: none;border-width: initial;color: #111111;font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;font: normal normal bold 32px\/36px Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 16px;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: black;font-weight: normal\">\n<div style=\"border-bottom-style: none;border-color: initial;border-left-style: none;border-right-style: none;border-top-style: none;border-width: initial;color: black;font-size: 13px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">A central concern for those in the Occupy movement \u2014 that the economic system in the U.S. is rigged in favor of the well-off \u2014 has been corroborated by a major new survey of developed nations.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-style: none;border-color: initial;border-left-style: none;border-right-style: none;border-top-style: none;border-width: initial;color: black;font-size: 13px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">When it comes to social justice \u2014 defined here as the ability each individual has to participate in the market society, regardless of their social status \u2014 the United States ranks near the bottom of 31 developed countries, the Thursday\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgi-network.org\/pdf\/SGI11_Social_Justice_OECD.pdf\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none;border-color: initial;border-left-style: none;border-right-style: none;border-top-style: none;border-width: initial;color: #2b0073;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">report from Bertelsmann Foundation<\/a>\u00a0found.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-style: none;border-color: initial;border-left-style: none;border-right-style: none;border-top-style: none;border-width: initial;color: black;font-size: 13px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">It\u2019s one thing if you live in a market economy where everyone has the same shot at success. It\u2019s quite another if fortune favors the fortunate. And the new survey found that when it comes to \u201cequal opportunities for self-realization,\u201d the U.S. ranks 27 out of 31 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member states, well behind not just Northern European countries like Norway and Denmark, but even countries like Hungary, Poland, Italy and France. 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