The us has never been number one in anything but incarceration rates. I''m not so sure we have ever been a democracy. The founding "fathers"? Rich slave-owning white MEN. Native Americans, African Americans, Women of all nationalities were not equal and still aren't in the "greatest country in the world". I think it has become qualitatively worse with the fascist regime in power now.

Parental leave is just one of many things that a society would be implementing if the health of the society was the prime concern of it's law makers.

It makes me sick when I see people embrace the "greatest nation on Earth' propaganda.

The corruption level here is rampant and the people who we elect no longer care about serving the public, but the rich corporations.