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America: The Best Country in the World at Being Last -- How Can We Change That? AlterNet

• the next-to-lowest score for student performance in math and middling performance in science and reading;• the highest homicide rate;• the largest prison population in absolute terms and per capita;• the highest carbon dioxide emissions and the highest water consumption per capita;• the lowest score on Yale’s Environmental Performance Index (except for Belgium) and the largest ecological footprint per capita (except for Denmark);• the lowest spending on international development and humanitarian assistance as a percentage of national income (except for Japan and Italy);• the highest military spending both in total and as a percentage of GDP; and• the largest international arms sales.