In 2002, the Swedish Institute of Trade reported in 2002 that “the median household income in Sweden at the end of the 1990s was the equivalent of $26,800, compared with a median of $39,400 for U.S. households.” If Sweden were introduced to the U.S. as a new state, it would rank as the poorest according to these standards. This is in light of the fact that these numbers are gross values — before taxes — and Sweden has some of the highest taxes in the world. Indeed, Swedes have such a low median income that they fare worse than the lowest American socio-economic class, working-class black males.
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Swedish education only looks good in the New York Times
What America shares with Sweden is a universal free education system — and what Sweden shares with America is a system that is decayed and on the verge of financial collapse. Sweden pays an average of $7,000 a year per student. Swedish children must attend nine years of elementary school, but high school and college are optional. To encourage high school attendance, the government pays students about $100 a month. By college, many of the young people have been programmed to join the unemployed and collect benefits. Some high school students actually teach at the elementary schools, while the colleges offer a curriculum similar to that offered in Swedish high schools fifteen years ago. As a further way to disguise unemployment figures, many welfare recipients are required to take Mickey Mouse courses at college, so that they can be recorded as “students,” rather than “unemployed,” thereby perfectly illustrating the general sense of misuse of the Swedish education system.
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