needed a nudge. Once again, the government wants to set the agenda by arguing for and maintaining the popular image of minorities as lazy and solely responsible for their social status.

Due to aging populations, The United States and Western Europe are facing imbalances between who draws from the welfare state program and who pay into it. They have an interest in increasing birth rates. The general European feeling is that all adults need to share some of the costs of raising society’s children because society as a whole benefits from having these children. But the individualism-oriented consensus across the Atlantic is that child raising is exclusively the responsibility of individual families; and communal societal responsibilities actually weakens self-reliance of families. The racial state in the Unites States maintains the low income nature of minority children to ensure they don’t get the opportunity to mingle and integrate with white children. Measures such as redlining are conveniently used to achieve this goal. All Western European countries match or exceed the paid maternity leave weeks mandated by the UN which the United States has even failed to reach since its conception. Parents in European countries also receive on average 10% of their wages as cash payments to cover childcare costs in addition to pre-school programs which are subsidized unto 75%. Average rate of child relative poverty in Europe is 10.9%, less than half of the American rate of 21.2% due to greater public investment and subsidies. Improving the lives of all citizens is possible if strategically targeted.

Studies of Harvey Brenner found that unemployment rates are connected to early death in the United States and United Kingdom. Claes-Goran Stefansson found the same relationship in Sweden where long term unemployed had a 37% higher death rate. Reason for this being in the United States, loss of employment results in loss of healthcare and people simply put off going to the doctor. This is not a worry for Europeans who continue to receive universal healthcare. The statistics could also be due to anomic consequen