Comment on Indiana is a great place to hire child labor

• SPRUNT@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Republicans are racing to see how many different ways they can legalize pedophilia.

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• Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A lot of states would already be classified as third world. Take away the funding from blue states and they go straight to undeveloped

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  • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Which ones? I live in an impoverished, rural area in a red state. It is nothing like a 3rd world country, just not even remotely close. Yet.

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    • Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      How many have you been to? I’ve been to a few.

      I didn’t realize that 3rd world is a derogatory term from the Cold War era so let’s switch to developing.

      One developing country I’ve been to is Paraguay. They have a literacy rate of 94.54% and apparently the global literacy rate is 86.3%

      Let’s look at US states now www.datapandas.org/…/literacy-rate-by-state

      Yes I just quickly googled these because this is social media, not a uni term paper

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      • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well, I would agree that literacy rates are lower here.

        To be fair, I am going off media representation of what is considered “developing” (well, media representation of “3rd world”, anyway).

        But, simply look up HDI scores for the US states and you will see that there is no comparison here.

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