So, do you want the actual answers to those questions? Because I have them.
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Here, in the US, in this regard, I already touched on our poverty level (20%, with threshold set much lower than in those countries), but add in the war on drugs and resulting social imbalance, lack of universal healthcare, and Reagan defunding our mental-health infrastructure...
And then you can look at the inequality of school funding for inner cities (because it's often based on local property taxes), which is meant to be offset by federal spending, which *both* parties have been cutting and diverting to charter schools...
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Basically, our poor have consistently had options taken away from them, until they're left with "join a gang/sell drugs/guns, or starve" and then you end up with a lot of violence. Add to that lack of social support for families, lack of paid time off, etc....
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And the fact that the middle class is getting squeezed harder and harder, and pressure mounts, and it results in family violence as well. Our socioeconomics are terrible compared to Europe and all of the countries Bloomberg's "Everytown" likes to compare us to.
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