Social Mobility In the USA, Federal Reserve Report
Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the United States – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility
Read MoreDemocracy on Cicerone tracks institutions under pressure: autocratization trends, academic freedom, social mobility, and the policy fights that decide whether open societies stay open. The posts cite comparative data and contemporary reporting rather than slogans.
Featured entries include global democracy indices showing autocracy on the rise, cross-national work linking liberalism and prosperity, U.S. social mobility evidence from the Federal Reserve and related research, and the U.S. rank on academic freedom. Other notes cover Social Security shortfalls, attacks on press and science, and essays on democratic decline.
Read the featured set for the core evidence trail, then continue through the full Democracy archive. Watch for how economic insecurity, education, and information control travel together when democratic quality falls.
Cicerone treats democracy as measurable practice: elections, rights, science advice, and the fiscal promises governments make to citizens. Compare the linked reports before assuming any single headline defines the trend for an entire country or decade.
Featured
- Democracy Is In the ICU
- Democracy is on a Steady Decline; Autocracy Is On the Ascendant in the World
- Democracy, Liberalism, and Prosperity, a Study of 109 Nations
- Social Mobility In the USA, Federal Reserve Report
- The Academic Freedom Index Rank of the USA in 2025
- A Project to Cripple Democracy and Advance Fascism
- Possible Social Security Income Shortfall in 8 years
- Science is Losing the Battle for Rationality
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The Academic Freedom Index Rank of the USA in 2025
The U.S. Ranks #85 on the 2025 Academic Freedom Index. Is anti-pluralistic government to blame? — Heterodox Academy The Academic Freedom Index and Its indicators: Introduction to new global time-series V-Dem data – PMC
Read MoreScience is Losing the Battle for Rationality
Science Under Siege: A Talk With Peter Hotez and Michael Mann
Read MoreA Useful Policy Fix to Aid Social Security
The Case for Using Subsidies for Retirement Plans to Fix Social Security The Case for Using Subsidies for Retirement Plans to Fix Social Security – Center for Retirement Research
Read MorePossible Social Security Income Shortfall in 8 years
How Much Would Social Security’s 2033 Shortfall Cost You? | Kiplinger A 3.2% withdrawal rate is likely a more sustainable metric. Additionally, if the household receives more than one check, additional savings would be needed to…
Read MoreExtra US Deaths, Still a Long-Standing Trend
US excess deaths continue to rise even after the COVID-19 pandemic, study finds bor_2025_ld_250013_1747858323.58139.pdf Excess US Deaths Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic | Health Policy | JAMA Health Forum | JAMA Network…
Read MoreDemocracy is on a Steady Decline; Autocracy Is On the Ascendant in the World
V-DEM Democracy Report 2025 25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped? Note in the 2026 report, due to the election in the USA, autocracy will be further enshrined. Cicerone
Read MoreDemocracy Is In the ICU
The rise of end times fascism | Far right (US) | The Guardian Democracy Disappeared – CounterPunch.org
Read MoreLife Expectancy and Wealth
Even the richest Americans face shorter lifespans than their European counterparts, study finds The US top quartile of non-housing wealth has the same effect of life expectancy as about the 30th percentile of Western Europe. See…
Read MoreUS Life Expectancy of 10 Subpopulations 2000-2021 Lancet 11-2024
Ten Americas: a systematic analysis of life expectancy disparities in the USA
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