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Teen birth rate
The US teen birth rate is not good, not by any interpretation. The CDC maintains a lot of data related to teen births in the United States, and even in the best states the rate ...
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Maternal mortality
Maternal mortality (mother death during childbirth) is a problem that largely afflicts women in poor countries — 99.8% of these deaths will occur there, according to Dr. Paul Farmer. Yet some will occur in rich ...
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Paid time off
The United States is the only rich country to not guarantee time off (paid or unpaid!) for workers. Even countries you might not expect guarantee time off — Kazakhstan guarantees 24 calendar days off, for ...
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Maternity leave
The landscape version of the infant mortality infobomb finishes with the rhetorical question: What do Sweden, Japan, Iceland, and forty-one other countries know about producing healthy babies that we do not? This, of course, is ...
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War is when…
Infobombing isn’t just for sidewalks and utility boxes — we stencil clothes, too. This is a fair-trade cotton shirt, stenciled with “soft scrub” bleach (let to sit for approx 15 mins) … it came out ...
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NY prisons
New York has more men of color in its prisons than public universities, according to Dr. Paul Farmer’s Pathologies of Power, p. 184. The citation for this statistic (p.311 of same book) lists Loic Wacquant, ...
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Healthcare spending
There’s an interesting 2005 study from Boston University School of Public Health (”Health Costs Absorb One-Quarter of Economic Growth, 2000 – 2005″) that, on page 9, we’ll find an interesting line graph clearly illustrating that ...
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Unmet needs
Juliet Schor has a book, The Overspent American, that details a lot of interesting statistics. Amongst them, on page 6, is one regarding what people subjectively believe they need. Persons of various income levels were ...
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New abortion laws
If it seems to you like the political climate in the United States has been shifting substantially in the direction of [effectively] outlawing access to abortions, you’re probably not mistaken. In 2011 overall 162 new ...
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WA public birth costs
A series of studies (1,2,3) by the Guttmacher Institute and Brookings Institution seek to conservatively estimate the incidence of unintended pregnancy and the costs to both the nation and individual states. The numbers are pretty ...
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Two cents
The USA Today isn’t generally considered the most progressive or academic publication, so I was surprised to stumble across a well-written [AP] article a few days ago on racial structural inequalities. The article traces how ...
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Healthcare waste
There’s an interesting 2005 study from Boston University School of Public Health (”Health Costs Absorb One-Quarter of Economic Growth, 2000 – 2005″) that addresses some healthcare expenditure data. First off is the revelation that basically ...
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Racial inequalities
A recent study from the American Journal of Public Health, entitled “Estimated Deaths Attributable to Social Factors in the United States“, which attempts to tease out a link between social determinants and mortality in the ...
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300k deaths from poverty
A recent study from the American Journal of Public Health, entitled “Estimated Deaths Attributable to Social Factors in the United States“, which attempts to tease out a link between social determinants and mortality in the ...
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African American poverty in Seattle
Americans typically think of the southern states as the most prevalent places where structural racism results in poverty, so it’s important to take note that that 27% of African Americans in Seattle (well, King County) ...
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Voting for equality
We have only ever received one “no” vote.
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The growing divide
Powerful words; what sort of actions?
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Together we are strong
Not our work, but seen while out infobombing…
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Tax rates
We save the few who are rich by cutting their taxes to a third of their previous rate.
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Life expectancy in Harlem
A NEJM study found that black men living in Harlem have a shorter life expectancy than men in Bangladesh (one of the poorest countries in the world); Harvard’s Ichiro Kawachi points out that black men ...
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