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- American kids are 70% more likely to die before adulthood vs. other rich nations https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/1/8/16863656/childhood-mortality-united-states 15 comments
- Very Rich Americans are having more kids. http://www.grist.org/population/2011-03-03-are-rich-americans-having-more-kids 13 comments reddit.com
- American kids are 70 percent more likely to die before adulthood than kids in other rich countries. https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/health-care/2018/1/8/16863656/childhood-mortality-united-states?__twitter_impression=true 15 comments politics
- American kids are 70 percent more likely to die before adulthood than kids in other rich countries https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/1/8/16863656/childhood-mortality-united-states 3 comments politics
- American kids are 70 percent more likely to die before adulthood than kids in other rich countries https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/health-care/2018/1/8/16863656/childhood-mortality-united-states?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&__twitter_impression=true 101 comments politics
- American kids are 70 percent more likely to die early than kids in other rich countries https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/1/8/16863656/childhood-mortality-united-states 56 comments worldnews
- Rich Kids Aren’t Any Smarter Than the Rest of Us: American inequality thrives on the myth that the rich deserve their millions because they're better, smarter, and more hardworking. The college admissions scandal shows that's a lie. https://jacobinmag.com/2019/03/college-admissions-scandal-inequality-meritocracy/ 8 comments politics
- Austerity Will Leave Us Crying ’96 Tears’ | Extremely rich people don’t send their kids to public schools, visit public parks or ride public transit. These wealthy folks don’t need public services and resent having to pay taxes to support them. Austerity works for these wealthy Americans. http://otherwords.org/austerity-will-leave-us-crying-96-tears/ 765 comments politics
- American kids are 70% more likely to die before adulthood than kids in other rich countries: major factors include higher relative infant mortality, teens 15–19 were 82 times more likely to die from gun homicide in the US https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/1/8/16863656/childhood-mortality-united-states 67 comments science
- How American Rich Kids Bought Their Way Into the British Elite - The nouveau riche of the Gilded Age had buckets of money but little social standing—until they started marrying their daughters to titled, but cash-strapped, British nobles http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/08/how-american-rich-kids-bought-their-way-into-the-british-elite/?1 51 comments history
- RIP, American Dream? Why It's So Hard for the Poor to Get Ahead Today: High-income kids who don't graduate from college are 2.5 times more likely to end up rich than low-income kids who do get a degree http://www.theatlantic.com/business/print/2013/06/rip-american-dream-why-its-so-hard-for-the-poor-to-get-ahead-today/276943/ 121 comments politics